Today we’re looking at Rosa ParksRosa Parks (2/4/1913 – 10/24/2005) was a prominent American civil rights activistSome notable feats or facts include:>born in Tuskegee, Alabama as Rosa McCauley to a middle class black family, with some white and Native American ancestry as well>spent much of her childhood on her grandparents' farm and also picking cotton on a local white landowner's plantation>after middle school, Parks enrolled in a black college but had to quit to care for her sick mother and grandmother>during a period of employment as a domestic servant, she reportedly resisted her white employer's attempts to coerce her into sex>met and married her husband Ray Parks in 1932 and they moved to Montgomery>the Parkses helped campaign for the defense of the Scottsboro Boys>Parks obtained her high school diploma, which was extremely rare for blacks at the time to achieve>joined the NAACP in 1943 and with their help managed to become an also equally rare registered black voter in the South>Parks continued to campaign on behalf of blacks wrongfully accused of crimes>she eventually found employment with a liberal-minded couple named Clifford and Virginia Durr, who supported her in her civil rights endeavors>in 1955, the NAACP was making a campaign to challenge Montgomery's segregated buses and several black activists had been arrested over the years for trying to sit in the white section, most recently 15 year old Claudette Colvin
>the NAACP believed Colvin and another teenage activist, Mary Smith, were unsuitable test cases>Parks boarded the bus on December 1, sat in the white section, and was threatened with arrest by the driver, which she dared him to do>she was arrested and booked at the city jail, ultimately found guilty and fined $168>civil rights groups waged a boycott of the Montgomery buses>however, Parks and her husband were unpopular in the black community, which blamed them for making life more difficult for them, and both lost their jobs>Parks struggled financially as well as health-wise, finally compelling her to leave for Detroit>the Parkses found work there and participated in the civil rights movement throughout the 1960s and beyond--at age 82, she participated in the 1995 Million Man March>in 1994, she was robbed outside her Detroit home by a black man who took $103 in cash she had on her>the assailant was convicted and sent to prison, while Detroit Red Wings owner Mike Illitch offered to pay for her to live in a secure high rise apartment complex>Parks was threatened with eviction in 2002, at 89 years old, for non-payment of rent as her age and frail health had made her no longer capable of managing her own finances>her landlord finally agreed to let her live gratis in the apartment for the rest of her life>she passed away in 2005 at age 92 and lay in state at the Capitol RotundaWhat do you think of the little lady who broke the back of segregation in Montgomery?Previous thread: >>18725773
>>18728861>>18728857>I sat on a bus>therefore I was equal in historical importance to Caesar, George Washington, Napoleon, Cromwell, etc
>>18728871This isn't a contest you weirdo
>>18728857Bad thread, OP. You just triggered 95 posts of /pol/ screaming.
>>18728857Average burgerstan historical figure
I knew OP was Tulsa Tranny all along, ever since he started using BCE instead of BC in his threads.
>>18728871nothing is remarkable if you're a reductionist retard, shouldn't you be somewhere else bitching about trannies or atheists or whatever?
Wasn't it proven to have been staged?
>>18728857>during a period of employment as a domestic servant, she reportedly resisted her white employer's attempts to coerce her into sexBelieved a probably embellished story she made up for her memoirs.
>>18728893Yes of course it was. the NAACP decided Claudette Colvin would be poor optics while Parks looked middle aged, respectable, and light skinned/not super-black looking so they could easily sell her.
>>18728893Why would they need to stage an incident like this in 1950s Alabama?
>>18728861that dude who robbed her was sorry when he went to prison and the black inmates there learned he'd robbed fucking Rosa Parks, they all wanted to kick his ass so he ended up in protective custody
>>18728897>>18728893>it was stagesWow, so you're saying the Jim Crow south wasn't actually racist or discriminatory? What a relief!Question, why are Chuds always like this? What advantage do you retards have in whitewashing Jim Crow? I thought racism was based? I bet you think the Holocaust never happened either and Hitler just bitched about Jews and did nothing about them while his own men got prolapsed by Bolsheviks.
shit was fucked. Claudette Colvin remembered being sexually harassed by the Montgomery cops on the way to the police station and feared they'd go further than just words because black females were generally seen as free for the taking.
>Parks denied having been put up by the NAACP to challenge the bus segregation, saying it just happened that way and she sat down in a white seat because her feet were sore after a long day. As she recalled, "I was tired, I had bursitis, and I wanted to sit somewhere. The press made it sound like I was old, an old person, though I wasn't old back then, I was only 42. I was just tired."
>>18728899Because of the optics as mentioned in >>18728897, the second post even says other activists weren't considered suitable. Same reason the court case that overturned anti-miscegenation laws involved a white guy (and WW2 vet to boot) with a black wife
>>18728924Well, black-Native American mix but whatever.
>>18728876No, one of the threads was about a black person who did a thing. That means we have to now argue that Rosa Parks isn’t as important as Napoleon Dynamite, Louie Pasteur, Adolf Hitler, or Rainbow Dash.>>18728906It’s emotional for them. These are the kind of people who unironically say shit like ‘I’m not a racist, I just hate beaners.’
>>18728924The Virginia anti-miscgenation law overturned in Loving was based on some faulty premises. The Lovings married in Washington D.C. which had legal interracial marriage, only to face prosecution when they returned to Virginia. The problem with this was that it was unconstitutional. Article 4, Section 1 of the Constitution requires states to recognize all legal contracts made outside their borders. Therefore a marriage license issued in D.C. must be valid nationwide.That said, Loving was still decided on faulty premises because the Supreme Court ruled that the Virginia miscgenation law violated the Equal Protection Clause (what?) rather than Article 4, Section 1 which was the obvious issue here.
>>18728976That was done back in the 1870s when D.C. first legalized interracial marriage and a black/white couple married there, only for a Virginia court to rule that the marriage was invalid in the state no matter what its legal status was elsewhere.
>>18728989>"Each state must respect the public acts of the others. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State."I suppose a crafty enough judge might interpret this literally and argue that it didn't apply to D.C. as it's not a state, although there is no reason to assume the Founders didn't also mean it to apply to Federal districts/territories as well.
>>18728909blacks couldn't even use the dressing room in department stores in the South, they had to draw an outline of their foot on a piece of paper and give it to store staff so they'd know the correct clothing/shoe size for them
>>18728893How was it staged anon? Walk us through the steps.
>>18729047no one cares, /pol/
>>18728857lmao, good choice OP. Rosa Parks always make people here seethe, for whatever reason
>>18729084t. Tulsa Tranny
>>18728893Really
>>18728857https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMafk-RHNrM
>>18728857I really respect the realpolitik behind her actions and the organization supporting them.
