Not that I am against honoring black leaders, but we need to think clearly about who we are honoring. Rosa Parks was not the tired seamstress only looking for a place to sit on the bus that is usually presented in her story.
The Rosa Parks bus incident was a carefully staged PR stunt, carried out to get national press, and it worked very well. Rosa was trained at the communist Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. The Atlanta Journal Consitution newspaper, on February 23rd, 1961 carried an article 'Highlanders and Dr. King Join Forces'. The purpose was to 'train' civil rights activists. Rosa Parks was one of those activists.
The communist penetration of Highlander Folk School is archived in the FBI reports from the times, and in communist operative records and letters seized in raids. The Communists were thrilled to be able to influence the training of the growing civil rights leadership. Their intention was to aggravate race relations and make King a communist propaganda dupe.
The summer before, (her famous action on a bus), Parks had attended a 10 day training session at the Highlander Folk School. What she did was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.