On today,

in 1913, Rosa Louis McCauley (Parks) was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. We all know who she is; an ordinary woman, who was tired, and ended up doing something extraordinary for her time.

                  Her act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.


When/ if  my wife and I ever have daughters, I want them to be ordinary women who will do something extraordinary in their lifetime.