The Woman Who Changed The World
Women's Leadership Exchange
OCTOBER 30, 2005
Rosa Parks is a testament that it is small things that can change the world. As the NY Times said: "By remaining seated, she took a stand." But even more than "a stand, " her action, or refusal to get up from her seat to make room for whites, was a pivotal event in civil rights history. It thrust Rev. Martin Luther King, then 26 years old, into mounting a boycott that lasted more than year, and ended in the U.S.
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