Sixty years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala.

[hollysmom]

1. she was an amazing women a lot of women are (and men), but most people just

see what is on the surface of all people, Judging a book by its cover. She is certainly worth more than a few sentences in a history book. I wasn't aware they had a collection of so much stuff. I grew up knowing a generation before me did not have the education chances I had and appreciated how smart people were doing jobs that others would look down upon. Not that seamstress does not require special skills, just unappreciated ones.

And now the republicans are trying to change her into some cartoon republican hero, ignoring all that she was.