Creative Writing - Rosa Parks, The Meaning of Life

Rosa Parks

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The Meaning of Life - "The First Lady of Civil Rights"

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Rosa Parks in 1955, the year of her arrest, with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the background

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65-year-old Parks writes:

I was born in the South, fifty years after slavery, when racial segregation was legally enforced. I listened to my grandparents talk of their lives as slave children and was aware of the Ku Klux Klan’s activities in our community after World War I. Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community because of the seeming insecurities and concerted efforts of many whites to make blacks feel and act inferior to them. I was, therefore, determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

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