It’s hard to believe that it was only 55 years ago that racial segregation was still happening in full force in some parts of the United States. Especially when we now have a black president in Barack Obama.
55 years ago today (Dec. 1, 1955) a black lady named Rosa Parks defied the Alabama law which stated that she had to give her seat up on a bus for a white person.
She was arrested for her simple act of defiance, but what she did that day sparked the beginnings of a civil rights movement in America that eventually led to African-Americans being afforded the same status as white people.
Parks and her stand against inherent racism is being commemorated with a Google Doodle today, but her life has been commemorated and celebrated in many different ways over the years. This is one woman who changed the world, and all it took was courage.
