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14. Rosa Parks: The Courage To Say No

In a racist America where the Ku Klux Klan ruled, Rosa Parks was a double negative. A woman, and a black woman at that, her lot in life was to sit in black-allocated seats, do menial labor for pittance, and never, ever talk back to a white person. And we are not talking about the 17th or the 18th century – we are talking about America in the not so distance past of 1955.

Always a part of the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks became the face of the anti-segregation campaign in Montgomery, Alabama when she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger in a racially segregated public bus.

The rest, as they say, is history. 382 days later, Montgomery buses were unsegregated! When Rosa Parks was asked if her tiredness or age made her refuse to give up her seat, she replied, “I wasn’t tired or old. I was 42. But I was tired of giving in…” And her determination to fight, to not give in, made her one of the most dangerous women in the word ever, making women realize that they too have a voice that can shatter misogynistic and racial beliefs, even if the voice is raised softly!