Before we go, here’s your random trivia of the day:
On this day in 1913, Rosa Parks was born. The civil rights activist is most famous for being arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat for a white passenger. However, it is a common myth that she claimed being “old and tired” as her reason for refusing her seat.
“I was not tired physically,” Parks once wrote, “or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
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