Civil-rights activist Rosa Parks would have turned 100 today.
Racialicious has a great post debunking some popular myths about her famous refusal to sit at the back of the bus:
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day…No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
