A 'not quite' tribute

One letter out, one day late and a van rather than a bus, but L and I spotted this van outside the Caley Hotel this afternoon and I thought it was worthy of a blip. It's a little unbelievable that it was less than sixty years ago, on December 1st 1955, that Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her seat for a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action led to a boycott that lasted more than a year before the US Supreme Court ruled that the segregation laws were unconstitutional. The boycott also brought to prominence a local pastor, Martin Luther King Jnr in the campaign for equal rights. The bus is now in a museum, while Rosa only died a few years ago having seen great progress in the arena of civil rights in her lifetime. Progress on a journey that hasn't reached its destination yet but I remain hopeful. The anniversary of the day she refused to move is observed as Rosa Parks Day.