When the FBI is trying to, you know, kill you, like you got to let off some stress somehow, I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are talking about Rosa Parks

with Princess Weeks. Princess Weeks is a writer, a you utuber, a historian, a cultural critic,

and one of my favorite guests,

we last heard from her about Lizzie Borden.

It's one of my favorite episodes we've done recently and today she's back to talk about Rosa Parks.

This is a conversation about history, the way that we learn and tell our stories and the human elements of people that can get lost when they are enshrined in legend even as heroic figures.

We try and get close up and I had such a wonderful time having this

conversation with Princess.

This month over on Patreon and Apple Plus, we are releasing the final installment of our Brittany Spears

Saga, our book club on the woman and me with our friend Eve Lindley,

truly the Thornbirds of its day. That episode will be out soon, keep her eye up for it, and I'm so excited to share it with you as well. That's about it. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for listening to the show. Go plant something. And here's your episode. Welcome to your wrong about the podcast where we go back to seventh grade and tell you

what really happened. With us today is Princess Weeks why I'm so happy to have back.

Thank you so much for having me back. I'm so excited to talk to you about Rosa Parks because I feel I learned so much during this reading

experience that I literally can't wait to tell you all about it. I can't wait either and to me the story of Rosa Parks sort of I think for many Americans

is a synectakee for how the entire civil rights movement was taught.

Exactly and I think with Rosa Parks, the inspiration for why I've been picking this talk because I was talking

with my friend Ken and we were talking about how there's always been this back and forth about

whether or not Rosa Parks sat on the bus intentionally like if she was working with the

N double C. P or not and I was like you know I actually don't know what is the quote-unquote truth like I've always heard so many mixed things and then I think with the

resurgence of people finding out about Claudette Colvin there's also been a whole backlash of like well how much did she actually do and I think in a lot of ways

Rosa Parks is emblematic of the highs and lows of the structure of the civil rights

movement about the leadership behind it and how they of the

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