A Real Hero



A Freedom fighter,Rosa Parks, died of natural causes,when she was slept at her home in Detroit on 24 October 2005. She was 92.

"I am leaving this legacy to all of you," she said in 1988, "to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfilment of what our lives should be.
"Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace."
She earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

All she did was to refuse to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. But Rosa Parks' stand was the spark that lit the fire of a nation's civil rights movement. She was a 42-year-old seamstress when she made her stand and by sitting down, she was standing up for all Americans.
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said her legacy would never die.
Years later, Parks said "When I got on the bus that evening I wasn't thinking about causing a revolution or anything of the kind.
Rosa Parks was remembered Tuesday as the mother of the civil rights movement, a powerful but quiet voice for equality and as a humble woman who did not seek the limelight.
(CNN)

In March 1956 with Dr. Martin Luther King
Modest hero, civil rights iconThe Christian Science Monitor