One reference was from Sheila McCauley, the niece of Rosa Parks. McCauley wrote about yoga as a family practice and about Mrs. Parks as an avid yogini.” Our Auntie Rosa, McCauley’s family memoir, co-authored with Eddie Allen, details how Rosa Parks attended yoga classes with both her niece and nephew, beginning as early as the 1960s. “The Rosa Parks’s yoga practice was life-long. Rosa Parks first learned yoga in the late 60s, and sources say she kept practicing until her death in 2005. It wasn’t an easy road. After her initial refusal to move on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which inspired the Montgomery Bus boycott, Rosa Parks lost her job at a local department store. It is one thing to say Rosa Parks did yoga. It is another thing to see her in a Thunderbolt pose, which is on the knee, and then in the Bow Pose with her feet behind her head. Mind you, she had just turned 60 in that picture, and Rosa Parks lived into her 90s. A second images was released later. “The images show Mrs. Parks sharing her yoga practice publicly a month after she turned 60.” Yoga as Self-Care. The LoC pictures led Evans to Rosa Parks: My Story, in which Parks details how she learned daily stretching from her mother as a child. Evans also learned of Parks’ many health challenges and The story was for our Black History Month edition and featured one of the most notable woman in the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks. Hi, I am Asha Gilbert and I am a trending reporter at USA Rosa Parks practicing yoga at an event, n.d. Photograph. Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00) Enlarge Rosa Parks. Notes on yoga, January 8, 1981. Autograph notes. Rosa Parks Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00) Enlarge Rosa Parks would answer the door in yoga pants “Parks practiced yoga for more than 30 years and taught yoga in her community. She documents her own mother leading her and her brother in daily ‘stretching exercises,’” writes Evans. Parks started learning yoga in earnest in 1965, when she was already in her 50s. Parks used yoga as a way to preserve her own well-being in the midst of her activism beginning as early as the 1960s, which Dr. Evans believes is important for all Black women to follow. Through exercise, meditation , and self-reflection, Black women have curated their own definition of inner peace over the years that is both radical and Rosa Parks is well known as a civil rights activist who fought against the Jim Crow system of racial segregation, but she was also a Black woman who enjoyed practicing yoga and promoted self-care How a Georgia State University Professor uncovered pictures of the iconic civil rights activist practicing asana. Photos of Rosa Parks practicing yoga have been circulating on social media over the When Rosa passed away on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, people around the world mourned her loss. Her body lay in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, an honor reserved for only a few great Americans. Why Rosa Parks Matters. Rosa Parks’ story is a reminder that courage doesn’t always come with loud speeches or grand gestures. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. I didn't know that Rosa Parks did Yoga and meditated. But it makes so much sense, when considering how much stress she was under. And she is just one of the many incredible women this book covers. Students will analyze Rosa Parks' evolving activism during the Black Freedom Movement using primary source sets created from the Library of Congress exhibit "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words.” Students will use the evolving hypothesis strategy to answer the focus question. Yoga was a smaller subsection of my study on mental health and wellness until 2015, when I found textual evidence, in her family’s memoir, that Rosa Parks had a four-decades-long yoga practice. After diving into the Library of Congress archives, I found photo evidence that Mrs. Parks not only took yoga classes but gave public demonstrations "Rosa Parks' yoga practice was a very small community. Coming into the '60s era, we're coming off of the Red Scare and McCarthy era and all that kind of stuff went underground." Did you know Rosa Parks practiced yoga for decades? For Women's History Month, we examine the self care rituals of Black southern activists. Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 26, 1956. Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images. Most of us know Rosa Parks as the African American woman who quietly, but firmly, refused to give up her bus seat to a white person Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. That small act of In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt 3. How did Rosa Parks' actions impact the civil rights movement? Rosa Parks' actions served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement, inspiring widespread activism and raising awareness about the injustices faced by African Americans. Her courage and resolve became symbols of the broader struggle for equality and justice. 4.
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