Rosa Parks: Agent of Change

This Stuff You Should Know episode dives deep into the remarkable life of Rosa Parks, revealing she was far more than the tired woman we learned about in school textbooks. Josh and Chuck explore how Parks became an activist from childhood, worked as an NAACP secretary investigating sexual assaults, and made a conscious decision on December 1st, 1955 to refuse giving up her bus seat—sparking the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott that would transform the civil rights movement. The hosts unpack how her case, along with others like Claudette Colvin's, eventually reached the Supreme Court and led to a unanimous decision declaring bus segregation unconstitutional, launching both Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into the national spotlight.