Rosa Parks, born on the 4th of February in 1913, was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. U.S. Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white person.
According to historian Dr. Casey Nichols, following this arrest, Parks immediately contacted local NAACP president E.D. Nixon and informed him of her arrest. Within hours, the Women’s Political Council (WPC), formed in 1946 to address the grievances of black bus patrons in Montgomery, sprang into action, printing flyers, phoning potential supporters, and organizing carpools.
The boycott succeeded in 1957 after the Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional. Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement, and she became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.
After the boycott's conclusion, Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan and began working as an assistant to Detroit Congressman John Conyers. She has received numerous honors, including over 40 honorary degrees, the Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, and two NAACP image awards. In 2002, Parks produced a biographical film titled “The Rosa Parks Story.”
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Forgot to complain about my coworker's casual bigotry the other night but
transphobia
Im just like sitting there trying to eat some hot dogs after putting dinner out and cleaning up and this new lady who does the salad bar sat down at the other end of the table, so she's like 6 feet from me, and she's like "you see that guy over there" and I'm like what because I can't fucking hear her and she like yells back YOU SEE THAT GUY OVER THERE? And all I see is maybe a person who might have been AMAB so I'm just like, what, them? and she's like yeah and starts saying shit about the way they're dressed that I can't hear because it's a busy fucking dining hall and I didn't ask her to repeat herself. I was just like "yeah idk I don't care how they're dressed, let them live" and ignored herThis is my ONLY interaction with this person so far except for her being all "omg these vegan meatballs are so good" like why bring this shit to me lady I don't want to know you're a bigot im just trying to eat
I think judging people’s dressing choices is pretty much always just disguised queerphobia