Even Rosa Parks herself points out how White people in subsequent decades romanticized her reasons…

…hat our history books need to tell deeper, richer stories about the experiences of people of color. Glorifying and often white-washing leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman create false notions of what success looks like. These stories are modeled as successful activism without addressing the fact that these leaders had …
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Apr 7, 2023
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Even Rosa Parks herself points out how White people in subsequent decades romanticized her reasons for getting involved with the Civil Rights Movement:
https://medium.com/reading-raccoons-ruminations-regurgitation/book-review-rosa-parks-my-story-6f51e7e5baee?sk=fb7edf00c24651606ac68120d0ad0c32
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