they will get married in 1932, and she will join him organizing around the scottsboro case. so that's 1932, and for the next 20 years she will be active. she'll join the naacp in 1943, for the next ten years will help to heed the montgomery naacp to becoming a more activist chapter, doing voter registration, working on legal cases, also trying to get justice for black women who have been victims of sexual violation. so by -- violence. so by december 1, 1955, rosa parks is a seasoned rebel, if you will. >> host: was december 1, 1955, the bus sit-down, was that planned? >> guest: no. it was not planned. but it is a process both in terms of her life, a kind of culmination of, again, many acts of rebellion. certainly, montgomery's black community is thinking about filing a suit. this is a year after brown v. board of education, so we're in a different legal climate. they've been talking about the need to challenge bus segregation. this is also not the first act -- she's not the first person arrested on the bus. in the decade after world war ii, you see a kind of trickle of peopl

ow can talk about the scottsboro trial. talk about brown v. board, now that you have "go set a watchman." so there's a way to be taught in history classes. so i think she will have a legacy when we're talking about this period in american history, because that -- but i think it's going to be more of a historic legacy than -- both historic and a literary one. it will brim both worlds. >> i -- bridge both worlds. >> i think it's a great idea to teach it in hit. also it's such a beautiful book that people will read it. it's a book about home. a book that we return to, and i think it's got its place and we will be reading it. and also the fact that she and truman grew up next door to each other, how do writers find their voices and the bravery it took for her to drop out of law school, one month before graduating to to go to new york and try to become a writer when alice and her father war saying, come home and work at the monroe journal. that -- i think finding voices, writers, and a sense of home, yes. >> i think mockingbird will be read 100 yea