Storyteller Series - #80 Rosa Parks Bench SE end

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This is a picture tile (re-enactment?) of Rosa Parks sitting by the bus window when she refused to give up her rights and seating.

Top Tile:
Rosa Parks: HER LEGACY

"It was so unbelievable that this woman --
this one woman -- had the courage to take a
seat and refuse to get up and give it up...By
sitting down, she was standing up for all
Americans."

U.S. Representative John Lewis of
Georgia, Democrat



Bottom Tile:
Rosa Parks: HER LEGACY

I chose to sing ?The Impossible Dream? at
Mrs. Parks?s funeral because I felt it
spoke to her life in the civil rights
movement and everything she strove for.
It was a step of a million miles for a
woman to refuse to move to the back of
the bus that day -- not just for African
Americans but for everyone.

Aretha Franklin


The designing artist featured In Today's Views is Sayoko Kay Mura