Before Rosa Parks made history, Jo Ann Robinson was already organizing. As a leader of the Women’s Political Council, she was the force behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott—writing and distributing tens of thousands of leaflets overnight. Her grassroots organizing led to more than the desegregation of public buses. It ignited the movement that 10 years later led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which celebrated its 60th anniversary this year. The fight for those eq