{"id":95,"date":"2005-11-01T01:01:24","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T07:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=95"},"modified":"2005-10-30T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T18:47:11","slug":"rosa-parks-civil-rights-heroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/rosa-parks-civil-rights-heroine\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosa Parks, civil rights heroine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just over 6 months old when Rosa Parks <\/p>\n

struck a blow that ultimately killed Jim Crow and ended American Apartheid. It would not have happened without giants like Rosa Parks. <\/p>\n

Nor would it have happened without a strong Federal government interceding in the South, imposing justice where there was none.<\/p>\n

Gwen Ifill noted that Rosa Parks resisted authority at a time when Black Americans were lynched for less. Imagine that 50 years later, <\/p>\n

Rosa Parks lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda. We may still have far to go, but we should celebrate how far we’ve come. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rosa Parks, civil rights <\/p>\n

heroine, is dead<\/a><\/p>\n

In one of her last lengthy interviews with the Detroit Free Press in 1995, she spoke of what she would like <\/p>\n

people to say about her after she passed away.<\/p>\n

“I’d like people to say I’m a person who always wanted to be free and <\/p>\n

wanted it not only for myself; freedom is for all human beings<\/em>,”<\/strong> she said during an interview….<\/p>\n

Chorus of Sister Rosa Parks<\/a>, by The Neville Brothers<\/p>\n

Thank you Miss Rosa, you are the spark,<\/p>\n

You started our freedom movement
\nThank you Sister Rosa Parks.<\/p>\n

Strange Fruit — Allen\/Holiday<\/a><\/p>\n

STRANGE FRUIT
\nby Lewis Allen \/ <\/p>\n

Billy Holiday<\/p>\n

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
\nBlood on the leaves and blood at the root,
\nBlack bodies swinging in the <\/p>\n

southern breeze,
\nStrange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.<\/p>\n

Pastoral scene of the gallant<\/em> south,
\nThe bulging eyes <\/p>\n

and the twisted mouth,
\nScent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
\nThen the sudden smell of burning flesh.<\/p>\n

Here is fruit for the <\/p>\n

crows to pluck,
\nFor the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
\nFor the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
\nHere is a strange and <\/p>\n

bitter crop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just over 6 months old when Rosa Parks struck a blow that ultimately killed Jim Crow and ended American Apartheid. It would not have happened without giants like Rosa Parks. Nor would it have happened without a strong Federal government interceding in the South, imposing justice where there was none. Gwen Ifill noted … Continue reading Rosa Parks, civil rights heroine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}