. >> up next on lectures in history, wellesley college professor breanna greer debunks some of the mythsbout rosa parks on the montgomery bus boycott. rosa parks was not first african-american to refuse giving up her seat. and that the boycott had planning and precedent. she also explores why the simple five version of history has become so widespread. prof. greer: our focus today is the montgomery bus boycott. that's what you read your

. >> up next on lectures in history, wellesley college professor breanna greer debunks some of the myths about rosa parks on the montgomery bus boycott. rosa parks was not first african-american to refuse giving up her seat. and that the boycott had planning and precedent. she also explores why the simple five version of history has become so widespread. prof. greer: our focus today is the montgomery bus boycott. that's what you read your sources for, except the pain article that gave you a larger focus. this is your favorite slide. what you are going to be so sick of. representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the civil rights movie. -- civil rights movement. we are going back to our topic of origin points, and get in, with the objective of troubling it. one, putting those events and context, but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. last week we discussed brown v. board of education, the decision, response, the impact, and also the legacy. i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. we will not do that today. on tuesday, we spent time talking about th