The Making of Rosa Parks - Beyond the Myth

Every American knows the often told story of Rosa Parks whose refusal on the fated day of 1955 to give up her bus seat to a white man, when ordered to do so by the bus driver, provoked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She is recognized as the catalyst of American Civil Rights movement. What is often overlooked is the background behind the famous incident by daughter of James and Leona McCauley. It was not simply physical tiredness on that day; it was not a spur of the moment decision.

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