Rosa Parks passes on

One of the great figures on the Civil Rights Movement here in America has passed away. Rosa Parks died Monday, at the age of 92. For those of you unfamiliar with American history, Rosa Parks sparked the Civil Rights movement of the late 50s and 60s. The year was 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white patron. At the time, segregation was prevalent throughout much of the city, and white patrons sat up front while black patrons were forced to sit in the back. She was sitting at the front of the black section, when the bus filled up and the bus driver asked her to give her seat to a white patron. Parks was arrested for her defiance, which led to a 381-day boycott of the bus system, organized by a young minister at the time, a gentleman by the name of Reverand Martin Luther King, Jr. The boycott led to a national desegregation of all public facilities.

May she rest in peace.