What Seems To Be The Truth

Remember in fourth grade, we learned about Rosa Parks? Well, it turns out that the story you were taught happened to be a bit over exaggerated. I remember being taught that she was a poor old African American woman who just got off a hard days work and was fed up with sitting on the back of the bus. Then out of nowhere, a scary white man told her she had to move. When she wouldn't that's when things got wild and people basically started the civil rights movement. The truth of the story is that she really wasn't an old women, she was in her forties and she didn't really pick a seat in the front, it was just that she was a minority and majority race got priority seating. This was also planned, it wasn't her just "having enough." It certainly wasn't the first time that someone refused to be treated second class, referring to the bus boycott in Louisiana. Event though the story was exaggerated quite a bit, I think that it's better that way, because it gave people the perspective that anyone could do it. If they knew that Rosa Parks was a secretary of the NAACP and had planned everything for so long, then maybe not as many people would have acted out.