Happy 100th Birthday Rosa Parks

'The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.'

This amazing woman changed the course of history and everyone involved with the African Caribbean Centre owes her a huge debt of gratitude. In fact, our Christmas cards last year featured Rosa Parks. For those who don't know she is the woman, a seamstress, who got sick and tired of being treated like a second class citizen simply because of the colour of her skin and decided to stand up to a bus driver who told her she had to give up her seat to a white man. That lead to a long boycott of the bus company in question and that in turn was one of the events that sparked off the civil rights movement.

Here's an interesting piece from Democracy Now about how Rosa Parks is often portrayed as a comic book heroine who was just too tired and a bit rebellious on that particular day. In fact Rosa Parks was a strong and long term civil rights campaigner. Let's all take a moment today to be thankful to her and those like her and remember her legacy on what would have been her 100th birthday.