Parks and her husband both lost their jobs and, unemployable in Alabama and besieged by death threats, left their home in Montgomery to resettle in Detroit. While her one-woman sit-in may have been spontaneous, Parks and her husband Raymond, a military barber and organizer in the city's labor movement, had previously spent close to two decades as activists in the fight for racial justice.Īnd the true sacrifice of Parks' protest is not seen merely in her arrest, but in the lifetime of hardship that followed. The daughter of two former slaves, the stand Parks took by refusing to stand tipped over a domino that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the eventual abolition of Jim Crow laws in the American South. Writing in her autobiography, My Story, this is how Rosa Parks characterized her pivotal refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. No, the only tired I was was tired of giving in." Plus, another edition of Pie In This Guy. 9 Photos (via 'boys are joined by actor and comedian John Ross Bowie ( Speechless, Big Bang Theory) to discuss New England eats before reviewing this week's chain, Little Caesars.
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