A snowflake can cause an avalanche
April 20, 2010
I guess you all know the story of Rose Parks, the black woman that on 1st December 1955 refused to stand up from the bus to leave the seat to a white men. Back then in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, as in all the deep south of USA, there were segregatoin laws. Rose was supposed to stand up, but she refused and she was arrested for violating the law.
The black community mobilized a boycott of the bus system which lasted for 381 days and resulted in the ending of segregation on Montgomery’s buses.
The boycott also brought national attention to the civil rights cause and to a young minister, Rev. Martin Luther King, who was appointed as spokesperson for the Bus Boycott and taught nonviolence to all participants. At the same time, other protests sprouted throughout the south and the country. They took form as sit-ins, eat-ins, swim-ins, and similar causes. Thousands of courageous people joined the “protest” to demand equal rights for everybody.
This, all started from a bus seat. And the refusal of a woman of accepting a wrong and degrading status quo.
