💨 Abstract

Rosa Parks, celebrated for refusing to give up her bus seat in 1955, was a lifelong civil rights activist. Her act sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, but her broader legacy—including work on police abuse, apartheid, and Black Power—is often overlooked. Mary Frances Berry argues that reducing Parks to a "tired" woman avoids confronting her controversial, impactful activism. Today, her full story might be censored amid political efforts to sanitize history.

Courtesy: Sarah Hooper