Black History Month celebrates big moments: changing the
Constitution to end slavery, the Reverend Martin Luther King
Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the election of the first
black president. But February’s Black History Month also
celebrates small moments that led to big changes, such as a
black woman’s refusal to give up her bus seat to a white person.
That woman was Rosa Parks, who was born 100 years ago today. Her
action in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 1, 1955, was intended to
be a small protest. (AP Photo/USPS/AP PHOTO/USPS) - The US
Postal Service created this stamp honoring Rosa Parks, the civil
rights pioneer who was born on February 4, 1912. “I had no idea
that when I refused to give up my seat on that Montgomery bus
that my small action would help put an end to segregation laws
in the South,” Parks wrote in her autobiography for kids, “Rosa
Parks: My Story.” “I only knew that I was tired of being pushed
around.” She was arrested and found guilty of violating
segregation laws, rules that required