What I thought I knew... beginning the quest

When I sat down to my computer this morning, extremely happy that I had the day off, I looked at some of the news, looked up some of the weird sports happenings yesterday, and then watched MLK Jr.'s speech "I Have a Dream." I thought about all that Martin Luther King, Jr. had done for the country, and started looking at some historical facts about the Reverend.

Then I saw some of the basic, bare bone facts about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Shit. I thought I knew so much about that, about American history, about this and that... but somehow I got like 90% wrong in terms of knowing the details of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In fact, I'd go out on a limb and say that I'm a complete fucking moron when it comes to the bus boycott, arguably one of the most important events in American History, and certainly one of the most important events in the 20th century. I thought about it, and I knew absolutely nothing.

After putting my mind to work, I thought about all the facts I could figure out about the bus boycott, and these are the few I could come up with:

• MLK Jr. was there.
• It happened in Alabama.
• African-Americans didn't ride the bus for an unknown period of time.
• The whites got pissed.
• Rosa Parks started it.

Thats it.

I'm a moron. And I'm a History minor.

I couldn't let this go on, so I began reading articles around the internet. I know that this is in no way an adequate tribute to Doctor King. But to a man who has done so much for this nation and this world, I can't think of much that is. So I began reading, and learning about just one of the many amazing moments MLK was involved in.