At least that’s how the event has been retold countless times and recorded in our history books. But, there’s a misconception here that does not do justice to the woman whose act of courage began turning the civil rights Movement on that fateful day.

Rosa Parks was physically tired, but no more no more than on any other day. In fact, under other circumstances she would have probably given up the seat willingly to a child or elderly person. But this time Parks was tired of the treatment she and other African Americans received every day of their lives, so she refused to get up from her seat. Because of this she was arrested and this was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott became the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and the change in laws that discriminated against people because of their race.