Justin Taylor does a wonderful job telling the story of a little lady who sparked a big movement.
On a cool Thursday morning—55 years ago today—a 42-year-old seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on her way to work at the Montgomery Fair Department Store, about five miles from her apartment complex—just as she did every weekday morning.
At the end of the workday—around 6 PM—she boarded the bus for her return trip home.
Contrary to some perceptions, she was not sitting in the “White’s Only Section,” but was rather in the middle neutral section with its floating cut-off line (indicated by a movable sign), depending on the number of white passengers.
Three stops later, her actions would set in motion what has been called “the greatest nonviolent revolution in American history (one of the greatest in all history).”
The rest here.
