Buzz: Google Doodle - Rosa Parks

I love Google Doodles. As you can see by this post and this one. I keep Google as my home page so I don't miss any of them! Today's Google Doodle is honoring the 55th anniversary of Rosa Park's bus sit in, by showing a bus full of children of different races.

In a 1992 NPR interview, Rosa said the following about her bus sit it:

 “I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for.  It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner.  I had not planned to get arrested.  I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail.  But when I had to face that decision, I didn’t hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long.  The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

It's nice to honor those who put themselves in harms way to fight for a better society.
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