Rosa Parks’ letters and photographs reveal a lifelong warrior for civil rights

#Rosa_Parks’ letters and photographs reveal a lifelong warrior for civil rights

Shy and soft-spoken, Rosa Parks was the ideal candidate to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She didn’t attract negative attention from the movement’s detractors and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. regarded her as “one of the finest citizens” of the city. But underneath her calm demeanor was a woman who bore witness to white violence her entire life. When Parks wrote to friends one month after Dec. 1, 1955, the fateful day she refused to leave her bus seat, she described segregation as a “complete and solid pattern as a way of life.”

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