I really admire Rosa Parks because Rosa Parks was tired, and I know how it feels to be tired. Living in the South, Rosa Parks had seen her grandparents, and her parents go through discrimination, segregation, and unjust treatment.

And during this period of time in Montgomery, Alabama, with segregation and Jim Crow laws, the thing was to get on a bus, you go to the front of the bus and pay your money, then you get off the bus and go the back to find a seat. However, if the bus was crowded and a White person came on, you had to give up your seat and allow the White person to have your seat.

Rosa Parks, on this particular day, had had enough of this kind of treatment. She was on her way from work, and she was tired, and she decided "I ain't gettin up," so they put her off the bus and the police came and they took her to jail.

I saw Rosa Parks on the news, saw her handcuffed and the police putting her in the police wagon. It was a powerful image, here you're a little kid and you see this nice-looking woman and the police got her. And so the world focused in on this, and everybody knew about Rosa Parks.

Out of this, Black people decided to boycott the bus companies. For 381 days they got rides from friends or they walked. And they nearly bankrupted the bus company, and it went into the courts. Rosa Parks sparked the civil rights movement. They thought, if this works, let�s try something else. Maybe we can go downtown now in the front of the bus and go into one of these Walgreens and eat at the lunch counter. This was just the start, and today the movement is still progress.