{"id":12441,"date":"2013-02-27T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12441"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:49:05","slug":"the-proud-presidential-legacy-of-rosa-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/the-proud-presidential-legacy-of-rosa-parks","title":{"rendered":"The proud presidential legacy of Rosa Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.com\/images\/ABC_Univision\/ap_obama_rosa_parks_wg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If Barack Obama\u2019s promised hope to be a national unifier was an illusion, his personal significance to this country can never be underestimated. For all of his failings as a leader, Obama\u2019s re-election re-enforced America\u2019s pride in their first black president.<\/p>\n<p>That history was on display in Washington today as Obama unveiled Rosa Parks\u2019 statue.<\/p>\n<p>The first black president honored the first black woman to gain a full-length statue in the Capitol\u2019s Statuary Hall \u2013 58 years after she refused to yield her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus (the bus is on display here in the Henry Ford museum). That\u2019s a powerful and enduring moment for a nation that has\u00a0bulldozed its segregated past in two generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRosa Parks\u2019s singular act of disobedience launched a movement,\u201d said Obama. \u201cThe tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of Montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind.\u00a0 It is because of these men and women that I stand here today.\u00a0 It is because of them that our children grow up in a land more free and more fair; a land truer to its founding creed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Powerful stuff. The stuff American dreams are made of.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Barack Obama\u2019s promised hope to be a national unifier was an illusion, his personal significance to this country can never be underestimated. For all of his failings as a leader, Obama\u2019s re-election re-enforced America\u2019s pride in their first black president. That history was on display in Washington today as Obama unveiled Rosa Parks\u2019 statue. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12442,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions\/12442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}