How Do You Celebrate The Life Of Rosa Parks?
Rosa Parks gained worldwide fame for a single gesture in 1955. But the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” had worked quietly for racial justice for years before the day she refused to yield her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Place Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in a broader perspective at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. If you can’t make the trip in person, take a virtual tour. (See civilrightsmuseum.org.) Visit the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, where Rosa shares honors with the likes of Helen Keller, Amelia Earhart, Georgia O’Keefe and Rachel Carson. Read Rosa’s view of the civil rights movement and her role in it in her book, “Quiet Strength.” Honor Rosa’s lifelong work with young people by sending a donation to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, which offers guidance to young African-Americans in preparation for leadership and careers. Share the spotlight. Mrs. Parks likes to re
