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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
| Category: RIP Rosa Parks will be long remembered: Rosa Louise Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American seamstress and figure in the American Civil Rights Movement, most famous for her refusal in 1955 to give up a bus seat to a white man when ordered to do so by the bus driver.And yet Teddy Kennedy said: Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement: "The nation lost a courageous woman and a true American hero. A half century ago, Rosa Parks stood up not only for herself, but for generations upon generations of Americans."Had she stood up we might be living in a different world today, Bridge-Boy. Thanks to James Taranto's Best of the Web for that glib observation. |
