# @feminist on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRulFPDAPnU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37496549-feminist-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-01T16:37:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** FEMINIST (@feminist) — https://gondola.cc/feminist

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Today, we celebrate #RosaParksDay. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005) was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Growing up in the segregated South, Parks was frequently confronted with racial discrimination and violence. She became active in the Civil Rights Movement at a young age.

When Parks boarded the bus in 1955 that initiated the Montgomery bus boycott, she was an established organizer and leader in her community. At age 19, Parks married her husband Raymond Parks. Together, the couple worked with many social justice organizations to end racial injustice. Eventually, Rosa Parks was elected secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

There is a common misconception that Rosa Parks was a seamstress who simply did not want to give up her seat on the bus. “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

Parks’s refusal to move from her seat on the bus on Dec 1, 1955 set in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In the aftermath of her act of courage, she was jailed for refusing to give up her seat and lost her job for participating in the boycott. However, the impact of Parks’s act of defiance was not lost, as it subsequently led to the integration of public transportation in Montgomery.

After the boycott, Parks and her husband moved to Hampton, Virginia and later permanently settled in Detroit, Michigan. She continued to be an active member in the Civil Rights Movement and played a vital role in organizing Detroit’s Civil Rights Movement. She supported the movement both financially and physically until her death. At the age of 92, Parks passed away, leaving a rich legacy of resistance against racial discrimination and injustice that has made the world a better place for future generations.

🎞️: Library of Congress

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