Prairie Flower

Quilts Etc. renamed today’s block in honor of Rosa Parks, whose quiet act of civil disobedience inspired so many. I wrote about her recently – at http://mombowe.blogspot.com/2016/12/radio-windmill.html - so I won’t repeat myself here. I will say most people who think they know her story have it wrong. Rosa Parks wasn’t sitting in the “whites only” section of the bus. The first ten seats were for whites and the last ten were for blacks. Rosa was in one of the sixteen “first-come-first-served” middle seats. Her refusal to stand didn’t leave a white man without a seat. It would have meant he’d have to share a row with her. She wasn’t the first passenger arrested for ignoring a bus driver’s demands. She was chosen as an example because of her moral character.  And she didn’t remain seated because she was too tired to stand. In her words, “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”