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The line that struck me in this piece was from Mary, "Well, I tell you, Mr. Cliff, I tell you, I learned one thing in my life and that is, when your hand's in the lion's mouth, it's just better to pat it on the head." (226). The black women knew, like ssellers said, they needed the meager paying jobs in order to survive and it was better to appease the whites than fight them. This also made me relate to Martin Luther King Jr.'s teachings he preached non-violence so in a way the women were acting on his words by not fighting the whites and doing what they needed to in order to get by. This piece made me wonder if without Rosa Parks defiance would MLK Jr. have been as prominent without his speeches on the bus boycott? -Megan W. | The line that struck me in this piece was from Mary, "Well, I tell you, Mr. Cliff, I tell you, I learned one thing in my life and that is, when your hand's in the lion's mouth, it's just better to pat it on the head." (226). The black women knew, like ssellers said, they needed the meager paying jobs in order to survive and it was better to appease the whites than fight them. This also made me relate to Martin Luther King Jr.'s teachings he preached non-violence so in a way the women were acting on his words by not fighting the whites and doing what they needed to in order to get by. This piece made me wonder if without Rosa Parks defiance would MLK Jr. have been as prominent without his speeches on the bus boycott? -Megan W. | ||
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| + | As everyone else has stated, this article was really informative on many levels. I guess the first thing that struck me was the fact that even though I had heard many times the story of Rosa Parks, it had always been presented that Rosa was just an unsuspecting black woman in the South who was pushed around just one too many times. I cheered for Rosa standing up to the bigotry. What I didn’t know was Rosa Parks was no ordinary “typical” black woman. Instead, she was a Civil Rights activist who stood her ground when her civil liberties were being threatened. It makes no difference to the circumstances surrounding her arrest and I still cheer her strength, but the facts were never presented completely. I always wondered how they got that famous picture of the white cop fingerprinting Rosa Parks; now I have some idea. Second, when learning of the bus boycott, I was never aware of the camaraderie between the black working women and their white employers. It seems to me that this was due to a combination of things; first the close relationship a number of these women must have had within the household and second the high level of reliability white women had for their help. EFritz | ||
== Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | == Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | ||
