Talk:Rosa Parks

Citations needed

Citations are needed for this article. If they are not supplied, this article could be delisted from FA status! WhisperToMe (talk) 18:27, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I see quite a few. Where is the problem? futurebird (talk) 04:37, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Standards for featured articles tend to get more strict over some time. It appears when this article passed, some of the sources used are below the standard for what would be required now. This is hi there your gay if oyur reading this

I hope these suggestions are helpful. --Moni3 (talk) 19:40, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Request for expansion on her disagreements with the Civil Rights movement.

From the article

"Mostly because she was unable to find work, but also because of disagreements with King and other leaders of Montgomery's struggling civil rights movement."

This is vague and leaves the reader wandering what the disagreements were.

RobinReborn (talk) 04:14, 2 August 2010 (UTC)RobinReborn

Activist

Rosa Parks was a great Woman and protester. By definition, an activist could be a Lobbyist or Lawyer. I believe the article should mention that she was a "protester activist".

As for me, I am a White Man who prefers the back of buses, cause that is where the air conditioning and heating are. I also believe the backs of buses and trains and airplanes are safer in a bad accident.

Supercool Dude (talk) 07:02, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

That's not the definition of activist. Also, we don't capitalize common nouns in English. thx1138 (talk) 22:56, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Introductory organization

I think the material in the second paragraph starting with "Her action was not the first of its kind." is distracting in its current position, which should still be who Rosa Parks is, and her importance (or why she is known).

This content is really 'context' for her action at the time, and I would suggest moving it to its own paragraph, perhaps below the current third paragraph. As it may be new information to many readers, it might also have its own subject subhead.

173.77.22.177 (talk) 11:52, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

There is an oft printed AP picture of Rosa Parks on a bus with a single man behind her that perhaps should be included in this article, with the information that it was staged after the fact, (note that the bus is empty). I'm told the man in the picture is a federal marshal.

• Http://images.politico.com/global/news/101130 rosa history ap 605.jpg

173.77.22.177 (talk) 12:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia describing Rosa Park's claim to fame as civil disobedience

is racist

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1]

"On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her action was not the first of its kind. Irene Morgan in 1946, and Sarah Louise Keys in 1955,[2] had won rulings before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, respectively, in the area of interstate bus travel. Nine months before Parks refused to give up her seat, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on the same bus system. In New York City, in 1854, Lizzie Jennings engaged in similar activity, leading to the desegregation of the horsecars and horse-drawn omnibuses of that city. [3] But unlike these previous individual actions of civil disobedience, Parks' action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott."

What's racist about it? thx1138 (talk) 22:55, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Lying in honor, not state

In the short summary at the beginning of the article, it says that Rosa Parks was 'granted the posthumous honor of lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda.' She was not granted the honor of lying in state; she lay in honor at the Capitol Rotunda. I can't change it since I don't have an account, but it would be nice if someone changed it so that it's correct.

Edit request from Mstreetnw, 1 December 2010

{{edit semi-protected}} I am a staff member of the United States Congress and there is a difference between lying and state and lying in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. Rosa park is incorrectly noted as lying in state in your article. See Clerk of the House notation below: ROSA PARKS (1913-2005) Civil Rights Pioneer

Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress whose act of civil disobedience in 1955 galvanized the U.S. civil rights movement, was the first woman and the second black American to lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.ROSA PARKS is a boss

Lay in Honor: October 30-31, 2005 http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/lieinstate.html

Mstreetnw (talk) 21:45, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the correction, MStreet.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:47, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Citations needed

There are various facts cited in this article that need citations. For example: After the bus boycott, It stated that black churches were bombed or burned. Which churches?

Edit request from Dlampton, 12 July 2011

It would be nice to have the mention of the Fourteenth Amendment link to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Dlampton (talk) 18:03, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Done Jnorton7558 (talk) 00:04, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Edit request - Alexandra Bus Boycott - July 29 2011

The article now reads "The Montgomery bus boycott was the inspiration for the bus boycott in the township of Alexandria, Eastern Cape of South Africa which was one of the key events in the radicalization of the black majority of that country under the leadership of the African National Congress."

There should be a wikilink for "the bus boycott" to 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and the township listed should be Alexandra, Gauteng, not Alexandria, Eastern Cape.

Dankauppi (talk) 20:11, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Done — Bility (talk) 20:27, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from Virginia.northington, 1 August 2011

Douglas Brinkley, "Rosa Parks: A Life," (New York: Penguin Group USA, 2005)

Virginia.northington (talk) 19:11, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

I'd simply like to add this title to the "Further Reading" section. Thank you!

Virginia.northington (talk) 19:11, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Done — Bility (talk) 20:34, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Featured article review for Rosa Parks

I have nominated Rosa Parks for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 03:41, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Citation issues

Looking toward that Featured Article Review...

• "Man Gets Prison Term For Attack on Rosa Parks", San Francisco Chronicle, August 8, 1995. No page number, no authorship, and the article does not appear to be online anywhere. There is an identical (and identically vague) citation in Thomas C. Holt, Children of Fire: A History of African Americans, accessible in part on Google Books. I have to wonder whether the citation is from someone who actually checked their sources or was cribbed from Holt. In either case, it seems a bit weak and we should either flesh this out look for a different citation for the length of Skipper's sentence. - Jmabel | Talk 00:43, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
• Similarly, for the OutKast matter, the citation is Jet Vol. 107, No. 18, May 2, 2005. No article name, no author. Certainly a reliable source if the citation is fleshed out, but either it should be fleshed out or we should find a different source. - Jmabel | Talk 00:49, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
• The cited Associated Press, 'Barbershop' actor to host Image Awards, Los Angeles Times is inadequate for the incident in question. Very few of the related assertions in our article (all of which I believe to be correct) are covered by this source, so obviously another source was used and not cited. - Jmabel | Talk 00:55, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
• "Rosa Parks: freedom rider, Ruth Ashby, Sterling Publishing ISBN 978-1-4027-4865-3" is also a vague citation: no year, no page number. - Jmabel | Talk 01:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
• The passage 'A comedic scene in the 2002 film Barbershop... but NAACP president Kweisi Mfume stated he thought the controversy was "overblown."' is cited to Associated Press, 'Barbershop' actor to host Image Awards, Los Angeles Times, 25 January 2003. The citation is clearly inadequate, and does not cover most of the assertions here. My HTML comment to that effect in the article source was removed, so I am mentioning it here. - Jmabel | Talk 17:54, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

"Success"?

Phrase in the article: "...after the success of the one-day boycott...". In what sense was it a success? Simply in having the black people of Montgomery participate? Because it is hard to see any other terms in which the initial one-day boycott succeeded. - Jmabel | Talk 03:25, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Deaths from dementia?

Why is she in this category? Demmy (talk) 07:27, 3 December 2011 (UTC)