After a hard day of sewing,
And shrugging off aching bursitis,
Rosa Parks clutched her ticket
And claimed an empty seat
In the middle of a Montgomery bus
Rosa knew two things the
Driver 's brain could not process
When he ordered her to the back:
Her seat was hers by purchase
And she owned an unalienable right to it.
With courage as strong as her rights,
Rosa calmly declined to budge.
The officers who came to arrest her
Could never have dreamed
They were unleashing the storms of change.
Boycotts, trials, freedom riders followed
That re-opened the flood gates of freedom.
Pastor King called her the hero she was -
This work-weary seamstress
Who knew precisely where she belonged.
May 5
May 5, 2026 at 12:12 PM UTC
After a hard day of sewing,
And shrugging off aching bursitis,
Rosa Parks clutched her ticket
And claimed an empty seat
In the middle of a Montgomery bus
Rosa knew two things the
Driver 's brain could not process
When he ordered her to the back:
Her seat was hers by purchase
And she owned an unalienable right to it.
With courage as strong as her rights,
Rosa calmly declined to budge.
The officers who came to arrest her
Could never have dreamed
They were unleashing the storms of change.
Boycotts, trials, freedom riders followed
That re-opened the flood gates of freedom.
Pastor King called her the hero she was -
This work-weary seamstress
Who knew precisely where she belonged.
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