We all know Rosa Parks as the tired old lady on a bus who unknowingly sparked a civil rights firestorm by refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama. But is that true? Not entirely. Rosa Parks was in fact a radical, civil right activist who spent years fighting for justice and she knew exactly what she was doing. In fact, she wasn’t even the first black woman to refuse to give up her seat. So why do we all know a misleading story about Rosa Parks? | PBS Origins

#OnThisDay in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This moment sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ignited a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Listen as Rosa Parks shares her story in this 1985 interview for “Eyes on the Prize”: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-610vq2sx12 | American Archive of Public Broadcasting

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