Rosa Parks, born on the 4th of February in 1913, was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. U.S. Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white person.
According to historian Dr. Casey Nichols, following this arrest, Parks immediately contacted local NAACP president E.D. Nixon and informed him of her arrest. Within hours, the Women’s Political Council (WPC), formed in 1946 to address the grievances of black bus patrons in Montgomery, sprang into action, printing flyers, phoning potential supporters, and organizing carpools.
The boycott succeeded in 1957 after the Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional. Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement, and she became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.
After the boycott's conclusion, Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan and began working as an assistant to Detroit Congressman John Conyers. She has received numerous honors, including over 40 honorary degrees, the Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, and two NAACP image awards. In 2002, Parks produced a biographical film titled “The Rosa Parks Story.”
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Ahhh, I got it it flip flopped
I phrased it in a floppy manner
I would say back pocket is blue collar coded, it's the construction guy location as well. And when I was catering it was fucking ESSENTIAL everyone keep their phones handy and check them.
Mind if I ask why? I’ve never catered and am curious. Same for construction actually, as well. I did like 3 days of that to help a friend and never again lol.
My current job refuses to supply us with devices and instead has us download the consumer app to find things, so that’s part of it.
We were located in what used to be a dry dock turned massive convention center. That part alone had 2 kitchens, a main one and one closer to where a lot of weddings and stuff were held that we'd do the final assembly for things taking place there as well as for extra kitchen when stuff was going off hard, if people were off doing an event and were running out of something or whatever we'd need the call to make more stuff and send it over in a van and the place was so huge it was easier to call people than go find them half the time. It was a several major operations at once and mostly off site so being reachable could make all the difference between things going smooth and going totally tits up
Oh, so literally a comms thing. That makes a lot of sense.
Same with construction, if you gotta talk to a dude in a crane and you're on the ground, easier to just give them a ring
SMH, companies outsourcing the cost of walkie talkies by assuming you have a phone