THOUGHT
The virtue of solitude is that it gives us occasion to rest, to reflect, to pray, and to see the meaning in our lives. – Stephen E. Broyles
FACT
Africa has 54 sovereign countries, the most of any continent.
HISTORY
1955 Rosa Parks’s refusal to relinquish her bus seat
This day in 1955, in violation of segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested, sparking a 381-day bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr.