Why Did She Do It? Rosa Parks, 1955

ANNETTE TELLS TALES: Stories from the Past That Resonate with Now, Retold

The day Montgomery’s buses were integrated, 1956. Rosa Parks with a reporter in an otherwise almost empty bus. A bit staged and awkward. Photo: Library of Congress

Rosa Parks, December 1, 1955

A segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. A simple elderly seamstress, a working-class black woman, refuses to give up her seat to a white man. She is tired.

Is this…