Rosa Parks 1913-2005

[Rockfan]

Rosa Parks died like a week ago and I haven't seen a thread about it yet man.

http://www.axisofjustice.org/feature_102705.htm

I'm sure I don't need to give you a rundown on who she was?!?

RIP Rosa Parks.

[Martin Blank]

There was a thread in the news section, and we've been talking about it in the Commie Club forum. But, unfortunately, you're right, no general discussion took place about her passing.

Miles

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2005, 06:19 AM
Rosa Parks died like a week ago and I haven't seen a thread about it yet man.

http://www.axisofjustice.org/feature_102705.htm

I'm sure I don't need to give you a rundown on who she was?!?

RIP Rosa Parks.
to be fair though, you could have started one just as easily one week ago :)

newswire:
http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=41995

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

A great woman and icon of the American civil rights movement has died..
What else needs to be said?

[Qwerty Dvorak]

yes, i think silence is the traditional way to honour a dead heroine...

and rosa parks was a heroine indeed.

[novemba]

i don't honor the rosa parks the white/bourgeosie/mainstream media made her out to be...

she wasn't a pacifist, in fact she was an avid and open supporter of Malcolm X...

[flyby]

where is the evidence that rosa parks supported Malcolm?

I suspect it isn't true, and would love to see some evidence of your claims.

[novemba]

"due to disagreements with Dr. King and other leaders of Montgomery's struggling civil rights movement"

-wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_parks

that's all i can find right now, mainly cause im lazy, its true if youre so interested look it up on your own

im sure hampton could help us with this, too

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

She's def. a hero to oppressed people; but at times like this I think it's always appropriate to mention Claudette Colvin.

Claudette Colvin was a 15 year old Black girl that refused to give up her seat for a white person 9 months before Rosa did, but the petit-bourgeois leadership of the NAACP didn't think a 15 year old, poor, pregnant girl was a good enough "image".

Here's more: http://www.kudzumonthly.com/kudzu/apr02/Dream.html

[Martin Blank]

In the current issue of WPA, we have our obituary to sister Rosa Parks, "Their Rosa Parks and Ours", which talks (albeit briefly) about how she was treated by the "official" leaders like Ralph Abernathy and how it was a factor in her leaving Montgomery.

I don't know much about her relations with Malcolm X, but an interesting element of her history is that her husband, Raymond Parks, was a member of the Communist Party in Alabama during the Great Depression (see Robin D.G. Kelley's Hammer and Hoe for a good history of the CPAL) and head of the Montgomery International Labor Defense during the Scottsboro Boys campaign.

Miles

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

In the October issue of WPA? I don't see it comrade.

[che's long lost daughter]

RIP Rosa

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 03:01 AM
In the October issue of WPA? I don't see it comrade.
November issue.

http://www.communistleague.org/wpa/wpa200511.pdf

The HTML is going up later today.

Miles