On the evening of December 1, 1955 in Montgomery AL, Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man because her feet hurt and she was tired. Her arrest and the subsequent Montgomery bus boycott, kicked off the Civil Rights Movement which eventually led to desegregation and ended institutional racism in America…. At least, that’s the story we all learned in school; simple and easy with a happy ending. Of course, there is much more to this story (and to its heroine) than you might imagine.

TW: discussion of SA, violence