I wanted to write about Rosa Parks, the first to sit against bus segregation. No, Dad corrected me, though he admired Parks, she wasn’t the first—the NAACP waited until they had the right case in this respectable, middle-aged woman; furthermore, the way the bus boycotts were taught watered down the influence of both leftist politics and Gandhian satyagraha in order to Mickey Mouse–ify King and Parks and other leaders.
