By Loretta Gaither, September 2, 2012 — My church gave us a calendar with President Obama on the front of it. It’s the first time we’ve had a black president, so I am happy to have a calendar to remember that. I hung it up inside my locker in my room at Riverview Home where I live. I share the room with three ladies so we each have a locker.
I will be in a play later this month for drama class. I’ll be picking potatoes, I am a “share cropper,” like a slave, in the play. Black History Week makes me think about different black people who made a difference like Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks was my hero because she was the first woman who stood up for black women by remaining seated on the bus when the driver asked her to move. She was tired. Her feet were hurting. She refused to go to the back of the bus.
I am proud to be a black woman.