When I read that the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a stamp commemorating civil right activist Rosa Parks, I said to myself, “It’s about time.”
Parks, who would have turned 100 this year, was riding a segregated and crowded bus home in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 when a white man wanted her seat. She refused to get up and give it to him and she was arrested for breaking the law.
A 381-day bus boycott began, lead by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr. Both Parks and King went on to capture the nation’s attention for standing up … Read More
