Timeline for Rosa Parks is a [symbol?] for the civil rights movement?
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| Sep 30, 2016 at 21:15 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | @BurhanKhalid and Paul Johnson Thanks for the comments. I've always considered harbinger to be positive, negative, or neutral depending on whether "what is to come" is considered positive, negative, or neutral. One can quickly find dictionary examples of the meaning of harbinger I'm invoking. For example: "Frost is a harbinger of winter" and "Witch hazels are harbingers of spring." There is nothing inherently negative about this sense of harbinger. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 15:23 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | The original harbingers were the people who went ahead of troops or a royal procession to make sure that all the VIPs had somewhere to stay that night, food was sorted out etc. From the point of view of people on the route they were therefore the first signs that they were in for a difficult and dangerous time. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 7:13 | comment | added | Burhan Khalid | harbinger usually has a negative connotation to it. I have not yet seen it being used to foretell a positive or happy event. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 18:27 | comment | added | jobermark | Yeah, but she is real not merely representational or information-bearing | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 4:44 | history | edited | Richard Kayser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2016 at 4:32 | history | answered | Richard Kayser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |