Jan 3, 2011

Rosa Parks? Journey didn?t begin on the bus

Fifty-five years ago, the boycott of segregated public buses in Montgomery, Alabama began, spurred by Rosa Parks?s refusal to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus. Her defiance of Jim Crow launched a movement that continues to change the world. What spurred this supposedly solitary and spontaneous act of rebellion? According to popular myth and many textbooks, her tired feet kicked off the civil rights movement.

Source: http://www.scblacknews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=953:rosa-parks-journey-didnt-begin-on-the-bus&catid=1

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