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Brother Thomas,
Oh life. I saw your son on campus...a fine man he is. It is good to see
them grow strong and straight and very well. I am still interested in mud
cloth. Do you have ones with red in them? I can wait until you are ready
to show them again if it is sometimes in November. I want to see several
colors and patterns. You told me that they were ? price for the large
pieces? Peace to you and your family. Fabu
>From: Thomas Adeetuk <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "AAM (African Association of Madison)"
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>Subject: Re: THANK YOU
>Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:40:21 -0500
>
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>To all our friends and members of the AAM family who called, visited or
>sent any form of sympathy, we are extremely grateful for your support
>and good will. May God bless each and everyone of you. Thanks.
>Thomas & Family.
>
>-- Original Message -----
>From: Ray Kumapayi <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:44 am
>Subject: Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies At 92
>
> > Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92
> > Long known as the 'mother of the civil rights movement'
> >
> > Tuesday, October 25, 2005; Posted: 4:07 a.m. EDT (08:07 GMT)
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> > (CNN) -- Rosa Parks, whose act of civil disobedience in 1955
> > inspired the modern civil rights movement, died Monday in Detroit,
> > Michigan. She was 92.
> >
> >
> >
> > Parks' moment in history began in December 1955 when she refused
> > to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
> >
> > Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks
> > that was organized by a 26-year-old Baptist minister, the Rev.
> > Martin Luther King Jr. (See video on an activist's life and times -
> > - 2:52)
> >
> > The boycott led to a court ruling desegregating public
> > transportation in Montgomery, but it wasn't until the 1964 Civil
> > Rights Act that all public accommodations nationwide were
> > desegregated.
> > Facing regular threats and having lost her department store job
> > because of her activism, Parks moved from Alabama to Detroit in
> > 1957. She later joined the staff of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a
> > Michigan Democrat.
> >
> > Conyers, who first met Parks during the early days of the civil
> > rights struggle, recalled Monday that she worked on his original
> > congressional staff when he first was elected to the House of
> > Representatives in 1964.
> >
> > "I think that she, as the mother of the new civil rights movement,
> > has left an impact not just on the nation, but on the world," he
> > told CNN in a telephone interview. "She was a real apostle of the
> > nonviolence movement."
> >
> > He remembered her as someone who never raised her voice -- an
> > eloquent voice of the civil rights movement.
> >
> > "You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so
> > serene -- just a very special person," he said, adding that "there
> > was only one" Rosa Parks.
> >
> > Gregory Reed, a longtime friend and attorney, said Parks died
> > between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. of natural causes. He called Parks "a
> > lady of great courage."
> >
> > Parks co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self
> > Development to help young people pursue educational opportunities,
> > get them registered to vote and work toward racial peace.
> >
> > "As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that
> > go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless --
> > there is much to be done, and people need to work together," she
> > once said.
> >
> > Even into her 80s, she was active on the lecture circuit, speaking
> > at civil rights groups and accepting awards, including the
> > Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional Gold
> > Medal in 1999.
> >
> > "This medal is encouragement for all of us to continue until all
> > have rights," she said at the June 1999 ceremony for the latter medal.
> >
> > Parks was the subject of the documentary "Mighty Times: The Legacy
> > of Rosa Parks," which received a 2002 Oscar nomination for best
> > documentary short.
> >
> > In April, Parks and rap duo OutKast settled a lawsuit over the use
> > of her name on a CD released in 1998. (Full story)
> > Bus boycott
> > She was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on
> > February 4, 1913. Her marriage to Raymond Parks lasted from 1932
> > until his death in 1977.
> >
> > Parks' father, James McCauley, was a carpenter, and her mother,
> > Leona Edwards McCauley, a teacher.
> >
> > Before her arrest in 1955, Parks was active in the voter
> > registration movement and with the National Association for the
> > Advancement of Colored People, where she also worked as a
> > secretary in 1943.
> >
> > At the time of her arrest, Parks was 42 and on her way home from
> > work as a seamstress.
> >
> > She took a seat in the front of the black section of a city bus in
> > Montgomery. The bus filled up and the bus driver demanded that she
> > move so a white male passenger could have her seat.
> >
> > "The driver wanted us to stand up, the four of us. We didn't move
> > at the beginning, but he says, 'Let me have these seats.' And the
> > other three people moved, but I didn't," she once said.
> >
> > When Parks refused to give up her seat, a police officer arrested her.
> >
> > As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked, "Why do
> > you push us around?"
> >
> > The officer's response: "I don't know, but the law's the law, and
> > you're under arrest."
> >
> > She added, "I only knew that, as I was being arrested, that it was
> > the very last time that I would ever ride in humiliation of this
> > kind."
> > Four days later, Parks was convicted of disorderly conduct and
> > fined $14.
> >
> > That same day, a group of blacks founded the Montgomery
> > Improvement Association and named King, the young pastor of Dexter
> > Avenue Baptist Church, as its leader, and the bus boycott began.
> >
> > For the next 381 days, blacks -- who according to Time magazine
> > had comprised two-thirds of Montgomery bus riders -- boycotted
> > public transportation to protest Parks' arrest and in turn the
> > city's Jim Crow segregation laws.
> >
> > Black people walked, rode taxis and used carpools in an effort
> > that severely damaged the transit company's finances.
> >
> > The mass movement marked one of the largest and most successful
> > challenges of segregation and helped catapult King to the
> > forefront of the civil rights movement.
> >
> > The boycott ended on November 13, 1956, after the U.S. Supreme
> > Court upheld a lower court ruling that Montgomery's segregated bus
> > service was unconstitutional.
> >
> > Parks' act of defiance came one year after the Supreme Court's
> > Brown v. Board of Education decision that led to the end of racial
> > segregation in public schools. (Full story)
> >
> > U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a Democrat, told CNN Monday he
> > watched the 1955-56 Montgomery drama unfold as a teenager and it
> > inspired him to get active in the civil rights movement.
> >
> > "It was so unbelievable that this woman -- this one woman -- had
> > the courage to take a seat and refuse to get up and give it up to
> > a white gentleman. By sitting down, she was standing up for all
> > Americans," he said.
> >
> >
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