Radio Windmill

It was a chilly and damp evening December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. A 42-year-old black seamstress was headed home after a long day of work. She selected a seat near the middle of the bus, just behind section reserved for white passengers. At the next stop, more people got on. When all the seats in the “white” section were filled, the driver ordered the black passengers in the middle row to stand so a white man could sit. Rosa Parks quietly refused. Her arrest sparked a boycott of Montgomery public buses that lasted nearly a year. 58 years later, when a statue in her honor was erected in this nation’s capital, President Obama said, “Rosa Parks tells us there’s always something we can do. She tells us that we all have responsibilities, to ourselves and to one another.”