Rosa was an organizer and we keep on organizing today image description: An illustrated portrait of Rosa Parks is at the center of the image with the event name, date (2/4/22, 11:30-12:30) , a Transit Equity Day logo, and a facebook live logo. In the background of the image is LIVE NOW - Join us on FB LIVE to Celebrate Rosa Park's organizing legacy & discuss how we continue her work today. TUNE IN NOW Rosa Parks was an organizer. While we face different challenges than those who came before us, we are still fighting the same root problem. We need to organize together to combat the long legacy of racism in transit. Who is Rosa Park as an organizer? Rosa Park was not simply a streamstress who sat down on the bus after a long day of work, or the first person to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white rider on a bus. Long before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, she was a skills operator, who was a secretary with the NAACP and was trained at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. Rosa Park’s resistance to giving up her seat was an act of defiance in order to preserve dignity. Any act of resistance takes courage at the first step. It is important that we remember Rosa Parks not solely in this moment as a catalyst for change, but to remember and honor that skillful action at the right moments has lasting meaning. Without a strong coalition of commitment, these actions would be lost. The elements that took a moment of resistance and boosted it into a movement was mutual aid and individuals pooling their resources (cars, bicycle sharing, mechanical expertise, ownership of gas stations, and careful-coordinating planning to raise funds and organize carpools) that kept an initial 1-day boycott of the buses to a 13-month strike. It took Black people from all walks of life to help one another. Without persistence and collective effort, the boycott would quickly dissolve. Learn more about her legacy and tune in now ‌ ‌ Pittsburghers for Public Transit | 5119 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!