Monday, February 04, 2013
It's Rosa's 100th Birthday
She is known for being the catalyst of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but she'd been active in the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP since December 1943 and was a member of the Voter's League among her other civil rights work.
The 'Mother of the Civil Rights Movement' when she passed away in October 2005 becaue the first woman and only the second non-politican to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda
She also has a statue in the Capitol building's National Statuary Hall in addition to being a recipient of the NAACP's Spingarn medal in 1979, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
And because she was tired of enduring injustice, she sat down and allowed herself and our people to stand up and fight for our human rights.
Happy birthday, Rosa.