Rosa Parks, Her People and the Movement; Honoring the Person, the People and Their Struggle

From: Los Angeles Sentinel | Date: November 9, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Karenga, Maulana
Los Angeles Sentinel
11-09-2005
The passing of Mrs. Rosa Parks calls immediately to mind the long, hard and
heroic struggle waged by African people to expand the realm of freedom and
justice in this country as well as the people, great and small, who made it
possible. Mrs. Rosa Parks was one of the great ones, whose life we hold up
as a lesson and legacy for both ourselves and the world. She was an
ordinary person, called by history and heaven to do an extraordinary thing
in the ongoing African ethical obligation to bring good in the world. And
she accepted this dual invitation ...

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