Painted with a purpose, this piece is to honor the hero that Rosa Parks was to America.
Montgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1955. Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give her seat up.
This eventually sparked a bus boycott that lasted 381 days. The boycott that still holds the record for longest boycott in history. That boycott only ended after the Segregation on Montgomery buses was deemed unconstitutional in the court case (Browder v. Gayle)
To quote Rosa Parks “I felt that, if I did stand up, it meant that I approved of the way I was being treated, and I did not approve”. She also later said, “ 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”.
If it wasn’t for people like Rosa, I could not say that my family would be accepted and living happily today. I am humbled by people that have risked their life, limb and chance of prosecution to make it more equal for humanity.
