When Time is Ripe: Remembering Rosa Parks and South Carolina’s Movement Builders
November 2nd, 2005
Harvest Time. It was this season a century ago that the sharecroppers who farmed this Southeastern scape worked hardest, longer than “caint see to caint see.” Hands swept air to their song. Their muslin sacks gaped, begging the dirty white poundage that seamed the landowner’s control and their survival.
Rosa Parks died last week. She was ninety-two years old and an American icon whose fame began after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama in the winter of 1955. For this defiance Parks was arrested, convicted of violating the segregation laws, and fined $10.
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