Silver Buzzard
Renegade White Man
Rosa Parks trained at the Highlander Folk School. The same communist training school attended by MLK.Tell me more, I didn't know this.
Rosa was well trained and the even was not spontaneous. The Montgomery Bus Boycott began immefiately and was very well organized. This was not a poor old woman who one morning just decided she had had enough.
In the early 1950s, Horton and his board of directors turned their attention to racial segregation. In July 1955, a Montgomery, Ala., tailor's assistant named Rosa Parks went to Highlander for a two-week interracial conference and returned home with "a strengthened self-confidence," according to David Garrow's Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
The following December, Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white person, setting off the Montgomery bus boycott, which gave shape to the modern civil rights movement and propelled King to prominence.
"That was not accidental," Egerton said. "The idea that things like that would have to be done to force the hand of the authorities was certainly part of the whole (Highlander) curriculum."
Preservationists work to save Highlander Folk School