5 facts about Rosa Parks and the movement she sparked

Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses by blacks to protest segregated seating.

Clinton didn’t directly mention her presidential aspirations, but her message tracked closely with policies she has rolled out in the past, like ending “the era of mass incarceration in America”, addressing gun violence, and fighting for voting rights.

It was 60 years ago when a simple act of civil disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement.

Gray said the first official meeting to plan the boycott took place in the basement of the Dexter Avenue church on December 2, 1955, the day after Parks’ arrest.

“Our work isn’t finished”.

But much of that seemed to be lost on Clinton’s critics on Twitter, some of whom accused Clinton of being culturally tone deaf with her use of the logo.

Clinton is working to solidify her advantage over Sanders, her closest rival, among African-Americans.

Meanwhile, as Hillary Clinton prepares to deliver the keynote address for today’s 60th anniversary event, Montgomery’s mostly Black, mostly low-income passengers are stuck riding on an inadequate bus system because Alabama is one of four states that refuse to provide tax dollars for public transportation.

Regardless, Parks’ stand was a major moment in the fight for racial equality – which we see continuing in today’s Black Lives Matter movement.

In her autobiography, “Rosa Parks: My Story”, Parks clarified her reasoning for remaining in her seat that day, correcting some reports that she didn’t move because she was exhausted from a long day of work. And black leaders in Montgomery – including labour activists, NAACP members, and middle-class members of the Women’s Political Committee – had been campaigning for better treatment for black people on the local buses for several years.

For the bus riders of Montgomery, who are more predominantly black now than during Parks’s now-famous ride, the continuation of her struggle is literal.

Hypocrites who capitalize on Parks’ legacy find it easy to pay tribute to a heroine of peaceful protest as they ignore the plight of the tens of thousands of poor people, primarily poor Black and people of color. Flags were flown at half-staff, and more than 50,000 people made their way to the Capitol rotunda, where she lay in state.

He sat on the same bus where Parks triggered the boycott during a 2012 visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit.

On advice to young people:

The advice I would give any young person is, first of all, to rid themselves of prejudice against other people and to be concerned about what they can do to help others.

Upon her arrest, Parks asked the officer, “Why do you all push us around?” “And too many black families mourn the loss of a child”, she said.

Martin Luther King wrote “Actually, no one can understand the action of Ms Parks unless they realise that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, ‘I can take it no longer'”.