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It was 60 years ago today when an African-American woman named Rosa Parks kept her seat in a Montgomery bus in the face of a requirement for her to make room in the front for a white passenger.
She is often portrayed to elementary students as a random victim an unjust system, yet more advanced students often learn that she was part of an organized effort to overturn the Jim Crow laws.
Another prominent figure who isn't taught about as actively practicing civil disobedience to promote a political cause is Homer Plessy, known for the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson.
There is so much more than what is taught in schools. It is an important part of American history. And this was not the first time Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
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