I had been distracted enough to have delayed this post. Rosa Parks - a woman who was brave enough to stand up, or in her case sit down, for what she believed in, namely racial equality - has died at the age of 92 on Monday night.

It was 1955, Montgomery, Alabama and Rosa was on her way home from work. She was tired and her feet ached; as the bus got more and more crowded she was ordered out of her seat for a white man. She was seated in the fifth row, the first row for the “coloreds”. This on a bus route that was predominantly black. She refused and was arrested for it. This was the South, where racial segration is law and lynching occurs with impunity. You just don’t do that. But Rosa did.

That act of defiance triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus company led by a then unknown Baptist minister by the name of Dr. Martin Luther-King. And the rest as they say is history. Institutionalised racial-segration was abolished from the Southern states and the civil-rights movement was born. And she hadn’t plan it at all:

“I did not get on the bus to get arrested,” she has said. “I got on the bus to go home.”

Read her amazing story here.