The book "Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals," has this paragraph for today: "Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913 [100 years ago today]. When she was forty-two, Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white passenger, which at the time, the law required of African-Americans. She was arrested for her act of civil disobedience and worked with others from the NAACP to start the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The resulting integration of city buses in Montgomery ignited the civil rights movement in the United States and inspired nonviolent movements for social change around the world."
Here's a piece from Time: http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/04/rosa-parks-at-100/
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