Rosa Parks was not the first black person to get in trouble sitting on the wrong section of bus. She wasn't even the first black woman to. She wasn't even the first black woman to hit the news on a slow news day for that exact issue. But she was the most aesthetically pleasing one, the most sympathic-looking to the target market, and therefore the one rallied around, and "made history".
Rosa Parks was not the first black person to get in trouble sitting on the wrong section of bus. She wasn't even the first black woman to. She wasn't even the first black woman to hit the news on a slow news day for that exact issue. But she was the most aesthetically pleasing one, the most sympathic-looking to the target market, and therefore the one rallied around, and "made history".
Appearances are 90% of politics.