Rosa Parks, nee McCauley, the "First lady of civil rights," according to Congress, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on this day in 1913. While growing up in the Jim Crow south, Parks remembered watching the school bus pick up the white children and take them to class. Yet, Black children always had to walk. At the time, laws in Alabama essentially made providing school transportation to Black kids illegal. Parks later recalled, "But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world."
Above: Parks with MLK. Top: Parks with reporter Nicholas Chriss, after the boycott ended. (UPI)
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