Rosa Parks Was My Aunt. It's Time to Set the Record Straight

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9. In college, when I took Women's History I learned that Rosa Parks was

Part of the organization working to launch MLK Jr as the person he became publicly. The idea was to start the movement with him as the leader so they were completely prepared with flyers and speeches. Rosa Parks was not meant to be the public figure, but when she was arrested the MLK Jr organization was ready to launch so they used her arrest to start the movement.

So I’ve known for decades that she was an activist. It’s a testament to the organizing abilities of the movement that they were able to think fast and take her arrest as the time to launch their movement.