110. Rosa Parks & Our Collective Ignorance: Why "She Wasn't the First" is Misguided

Rosa Parks' story keeps getting mucked up - especially in recent years. From emphasizing that she "wasn't the first" Black woman to do this to characterizing her as a tired woman who didn't feel like standing, she hasn't gotten her flowers.

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Sources: Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Institute, Rosa Parks; History.com, Rosa Parks’ Biography; Stride Toward Freedom by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Women’s History, Rosa Parks’s Biography; The WP, Pitting Rosa Parks against Claudette Colvin distorts history.