Carr. Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who died in 2005. Things seemed bleak at the time and execution dates were soon approaching. Rosa Parks helped change Bryan's approach to how he approached his work. Bryan depended on others in the system to get it and play it safe. Rosa Parks simply told him that he had to manage and not give up so quickly. “You have to be brave, brave, brave,” Rosa Parks told Bryan. Since that conference, Bryan has decided to stop the "insanity of arrest" and has dedicated his life to seeing innocent people like Hinton and McMillian free while returning to help Carter and