It wasn't as widespread as the villain rankings at all, but I've previously planned a "Great Women Ranking" on this blog.
Rosa Parks is personally one of the top ten women in human history, and it is certain that her courage has become a movement that involves the United States.
She is one of the most respected people personally.
Rosa Parks Incident
It's strange that somehow it doesn't appear in world history textbooks, but it does appear in English textbooks, but I think the "Rosa Parks Incident" will be one of the top 100 major events in human history. ..
In 1955, severe racial discrimination was taking place in the southern states.
This was, in a sense, a major problem before the founding of the United States, and even before the Revolutionary War, there were problems in the northern part with few blacks and the southern part with many blacks, and it was a direct cause in the Civil War.
As a result of the war, the Union Army won, the "Emancipation Proclamation" issued by Lincoln was adopted, and it seemed that the United States had eliminated discrimination, but the country of USA is a federal state, and each law is decided by each state. It was a mechanism to be able to do it.
Therefore, in the southern states, specifically Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, etc., the Jim Crow Law was enacted in a straightforward manner even after the Civil War.
The content was just discriminatory, and discrimination against blacks remained severe, with blacks having to give up their seats when whites came, or even in transportation and public institutions, whites and blacks were separate services.
Frighteningly, the majority of blacks living in the United States lived in this southern part, and after all, blacks in the United States suffered discrimination even after the liberation of slaves.
It was Rosa Parks who dared to face such a situation.
She rebelled against a driver in Montgomery, Alabama, one of the most racist lands, who told her to give up her seat to a white man.
Rosa Parks was arrested for that.
She just didn't give up her seat. It was the reality of the United States at that time that he was arrested for that reason.
She wasn't sitting tired. She clearly showed a rebellious intention.
Rosa Parks was later asked about this event, and she replied:
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
(I was the only one tired of giving in)
Civil Rights Movement
Her courage moved the United States.
Rev. King, who was also a minister in Montgomery, Alabama, was openly angry.
King calls on blacks throughout Alabama to boycott, and eventually a federal court finds black discrimination against transportation in Alabama unconstitutional.
During this period, the civil rights movement became very active, and the March on Washington began on August 23, 1963, just 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
On the spot, Rev. King said in front of an audience of 250,000.
"I have a dream"
Rosa Parks' actions moved Rev. King, and then the United States, and civil rights were established.
Only one courage moved the world.
Rosa Parks after that
The courageous are destined to be persecuted.
Rosa Parks' rebellion against whites made her difficult to stay in Alabama, and she moved to Detroit.
Her name eventually appeared in textbooks, but Rosa Parks didn't know that at first.
She has been a member of Congressman John Conyers for many years, and the Rosa Parks Memorial was eventually built in the city of Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks then lived until 2005.
She was 92 years old.
Her death was missed all over the United States. In response to her death, U2's Bono has left the following words:
"The United States has become a good country thanks to Parks, but our journey towards equality is still going on. Let's continue our journey."
The life of Rosa Parks has taught us the importance of courage.
Follow your beliefs.
Isn't it to live well?
No one has lived as well as Rosa Parks.
I think so.