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Dear All, I write in the spirit of remembering Rosa Parks profound act of self, and justice, on a fateful day, many years ago. Her 1957 action -- an intensely spatial action -- profoundly changed the way in which African Americans thought of themselves, and the way in which white-supremacist dominated America were positioned politically, through the act of refusing to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama bus, on December 1. This act overturned the spatiality of injustice African American citizens faced each day, at every turn. As Geographers, I believe it is particularly pertinent to reflect on this powerful act of the self. Thank you, Rosa Parks, for changing not only history, but ourselves. http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-rosa-parks-mw?source=BSDAds_GoogleSearch_Famous%20Civil%20Rights%20Leaders_Rosa%20Parks-Name_Rosa%20Parks_Exact_13683513673&gclid=CKvviPPy_LMCFQioPAodB3UATA Regards, Kevin DeJesus -- Kevin M. DeJesus, PhD http://independent.academia.edu/KevinMDeJesus Post-Doctoral Research Associate Rhode Island College/Multi-University Research Initiative Craig Lee Hall, 143 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue Providence, RI 02908 401-456-8696 Co-Editor, H-Mideast Politics http://www.h-net.org/~midepol/ Book Review Editor, H-Africa http://www.h-net.org/~africa/ Coordinator, Mobile Loaves and Fishes Project First Unitarian Church of Providence http://mlf.org/ Mobile: 401-559-4056