New Rosa Parks documents going into Library of Congress.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...440_story.html

Nice to see more aspects of her personality than meek nonviolent resistor!

When Rosa Parks was a little girl in rural Alabama, she would stay up at night, keeping watch with her grandfather as he stood guard with a shotgun against marauding members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Klansmen often terrorized black communities in the early 1900s, and Parks’s grandfather, Sylvester Edwards, the son of a white plantation owner, had their house boarded up for protection.
But Parks longed for a showdown.

“I wanted to see him kill a Ku-Kluxer,” the renowned civil rights leader wrote in a brief biographical sketch years later. “He declared that the first to invade our home would surely die.”

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kudos to Mother Parks. Hopefully this will preserve her artifacts and teach successive generations about her contributions to humanity.

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Thank you for sharing the article. Thank you Rosa. May you rest in PEACE.