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Contents 1 Archived 2 Reviewing the last 500 edits 3 Question 4 which Peace Prize? 5 Civil disobedience question 6 Geordie Richter? 7 quotes section 8 "Recalled" 9 1943 incident 10 A very minor honor

[edit] Archived

• Archive 1: Opening comments, Outkast, Gordon Parks' sister?, Date of settlement of lawsuit, Middle name, Montgomery Boycott, 382 days, or 381 days?, language..., Jackie Robinson, African-American?, 2005 Deaths, Where did she die?, Front of the bus time Mrs Parks, good info here, Seamstress?, This article is mediocre, Outkast Lawsuit - What is it?, Famous image, The white man, Deletion, When was the photo taken?, New Picture, Lee vs Louise, Does anyone know Rosa's family's address?, Sympathy, Browder v. Gayle, POV, Death and funeral, removed half of lead, News coverage of funeral, Montgomery Bus Boycott Section, Photos of Fingerprints, etc., King County Metro tribute, What is needed to get this article to featured, Vandalism, Ideal or not - nominate already, Metro sticker, Removed section: "Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Ceremony" + Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Ceremony, Which photos to junk, Clarification of 1964 Photo, Main page FA?, Nice Work!, Question, Horrible citation style, Be Nice!, Correction needed, Race, Article decaying before our eyes

[edit] Reviewing the last 500 edits

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosa_Parks&diff=34145162&oldid=29717012

There have been almost 500 edits since this entry was on the front page. I am pleased to see that almost every modification helped the article. The writing is stronger, and a glaring lacuna, the legacy of the boycott for movements worldwide (still meager), was filled. I am going to remove the new long quote from her friend. It isn't informative and would be the third quote explaining her motivation.

Lotsofissues 01:06, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

could someone please tell me how to add a comment to someone else's comment?? i new here and was just wondering. Thanx! Smartestbrunette 00:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Click on the "Edit" link next to the header of the section you are replying in. Then move the edit cursor to the point beneath the comment you're trying to reply to, and type your response, beginning the line with a colon (:) if you want it to be indented (multiple colons to indent further; it's traditional to indent one level further than the thing you're responding to). At the end of your comment, type four tildes (~~~~) to cause the comments to be signed. *Dan T.* 00:44, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] which Peace Prize?

OK, so a quick check at [1] reveals that indeed Rosa Parks did not ever win the Nobel Peace prize. And a Google search [2] comes up with around 150 hits for Rosa Parks Peace Prize. But try to find out anything about this prize and you won't get very far. Most intersting, an article [3] from the New York Times, dated 1994-11-07, states "The organizers of One Day of Peace, a Swedish-American festival, told Mrs. Parks on Friday they were creating the Rosa Parks Peace Prize and would ask her to help in choosing its first winner next year, the 40th anniversary of her historic refusal..."

Can anyone shed any more (verifyable) light on this? Nick Levine 17:02, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civil disobedience question

I know this question is probably going to be offensive to some, but I don't mean it that way, and I really would appreciate an answer. The article mentions that there was some thirty minute trial. Now, if there was a trial at all, it seems that would imply that Parks pled not guilty, or in some way contested the punishment. If she pled not guilty, that would imply that she was either claiming 1) that she didn't commit the act she was accused of, or 2) she committed that act, but that act was not illegal. (The third possibility, that she was planning to purely aruge jury nullification isn't mentioned.) Either of those would seem to disqualify it as an act of civil disobedience. In civil disobedience, you non-violently disobey a law you believe to be unjust as a means of resisting that law. I don't think she argued 1), that she "didn't really sit in that bus seat after being ordered to move". If she argued 2), that would disqualify it as an act of civil disobedience. How can you say, "I'm disobeying this law, but what I'm doing isn't really illegal." ? So what exactly happened at the trial? What was there to contest that would be consistent with "civil disobedience" of unjust laws? (Again, apologies if this sounds mean-spirited.) MrVoluntarist 18:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I presume her argument was that she was, indeed, violating a law, but the law was unconstitutional. To make such a case, one must enter a not guilty plea. And, certainly, it is considered civil disobedience to refuse to obey a law one considers unconstitutional. - Jmabel | Talk 16:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

As the poster above mentioned, you left out a third (or fourth, depends on how you count) option: she believe that in illegal law attempted to make her action illegal. If she had plead guilty, most likely there would have been no trial as the judge would have just accepted the fine proposed by the DA and convicted her. Since she plead not guilty, a trial is necessary which gave her the opportunity to put her story on record. She was still convicted but the record the case produced was important for subsequent cases. sebmol 16:22, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geordie Richter?

I think someone has vandalized the top of the page.

As you can imagine, this is an often-vandalized article. Usually fixed pretty fast, but you obviously hit it at a moment when it wasn't. - Jmabel | Talk 18:45, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] quotes section

I have removed the section containing the following content:

• "The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest."

One, it is unsourced and so brief it would be better placed in the text in an appropriate location rather than extending the TOC. Two, it should be at wikiquote in any case, with one of those neat boxes placed here with the others. - BT 15:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Recalled"

Recently added (indicated here by italics): "she later recalled that she had attended a mass meeting in Montgomery which focused on this case as well as the recent murders of George W. Lee and Lamar Smith." Why "later recalled"? Is there any doubt that she had attended the meeting? This wording tends to suggest that her recall perhaps should not be trusted: otherwise we would simply state it all as fact, as we do most things. - Jmabel | Talk 20:50, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1943 incident

The description of the first run-in in 1943 with James Blake requires a citation, since it disagrees with other versions. The James F. Blake article suggests that Parks decided not to reboard, whereas this one suggests that he drove off before she could. 70.226.111.52 16:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A very minor honor

Cut from the "Honors and awards" section: "On May 15, 2006, Pascal Obispo's album 'les fleurs du bien' features a song named 'Rosa', tribute to Rosa Parks." I'd have fixed the bad writing if that were all that were wrong with this. Doesn't seem particularly notable (there are many more notable songs about Parks) and I'm not even sure what it means to say that an album features a song on a particular date: so, like, three days later it no longer featured it? - Jmabel | Talk 19:35, 13 October 2006 (UTC)