Primary Sources: Everything You Know About the Montgomery Bus Boycott Is Wrong

You probably learned the kinder, gentler version of the economic protest that defined the Civil Rights Movement. Here is the real story.

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Instead of untold stories from Black history, ContrabandCamp’s Primary Sources series shares pure, uncut and rarely told stories from the past straight from the primary source.

Some stories don’t need whitewashing.

In 1955, a brave, nonviolent protester named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to sit on the back of a Montgomery, Ala. bu…