Thursday marks the 61st anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white man — an action that got her arrested, sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, and arguably kicked off the civil rights movement as we know it. It's also, apparently, the 51st anniversary of everyone forgetting who Rosa Parks was.
Last year, the Los Angeles Times dug up a profile of Parks it published in December 1965 — for the 10-year anniversary of her arrest. But the profile starts off with a weird line about how most people don't recognize her name:
DETROIT — When you mention Rosa Parks' name these days most people ask 'Who?' but some get emotional and call her 'the mother of the civil rights movement as we know it.'
