Rosa Parks Was More Than Just an 'Old Lady' Who Began the Montgomery Bus Boycott
December 1 marks the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ radical move of refusing to move from her seat on an Alabama bus, inciting the 13-month Montgomery bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. Parks is often characterized in history books as a quiet “old” seamstress, but she was an activist long before she was arrested for breaking Jim Crow laws in 1955—and she wasn’t old.