EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; ROSA L. MCCAULEY PARKS P/13 1913

 

In this post I will continue to share the story of a woman named Rosa L.McCauley Parks. She lived from 1913 - 2005. By the time Rosa boarded a bus in 1955, when she famously refused to sit in the part of the bus she was supposed to sit, she was an established organiser and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. 

Rosa not only showed active resistance by refusing to move, she also helped organise and plan the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Many have tried to diminish Rosa's role in the boycott by depicting her as a seamstress who simply did not want to move because she was tired. 

Rosa denied the claim and years later revealed her true motivation: "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."