![]() ![]() Rosa Parks recalls many black soldiers returning to the South after World War I, expecting respect and equality: According to a biography of Parks by Douglas Brinkley, Sylvester Edwards was a fearless “race man,” an adherent to the beliefs of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Too few review the life that had made her tired of injustice.Īs a young child living with her mother and grandparents in Pine Level, Ala., Rosa sat at the feet of her grandfather, Sylvester Edwards, who with a shotgun in his lap guarded the family at night from the Ku Klux Klan. Many accounts of Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the rear of the bus on December 1, 1955, focus on her being tired or her feet hurting. ![]() To celebrate the centennial of her birth, the United States Postal Service will unveil a stamp honoring her legacy. Congress called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement,” was born 100 years ago, on February 4, 1913, to James and Leona Edwards McCauley. ![]()
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