Africa/Global: The Real Rosa Parks

Author Paul Rogat Loeb, the author of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, remembers how he appeared on the same CNN show as Rosa Parks. The host recited how Parks had refused to give her bus seat to a white person, sparking the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, United States. Loeb writes that he had been excited to be a part of the same show as Parks, but that it had occurred to him that "the host's description - the story's standard rendition and one repeated even in many of her obituaries - stripped the Montgomery boycott of all of its context."