Civil rights warrior

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A simple portrait ,very poignant and effectively honouring this brave woman. A nice side note to go along with this,remembering Rosa and all the others. Excellent.

Thanks for your thoughts Andre. This was such a profound image that when I saw it again on the Internet I couldn't resist associating with it through a sketch.

Digital image created on iPad. Taken from an Internet image of Rosa Parks shortly after her arrest for disobeying a bus driver to give up her seat to a white person. Rosa was not the first person to resist bus segregation. Others had taken similar steps, including Bayard Rustin in 1942, Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1952, and the members of the ultimately successful Browder v. Gayle lawsuit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) who were arrested in Montgomery for not giving up their bus seats months before.