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Decades before U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voted along with his conservative colleagues to overturn Roe v. Wade in the early summer of 2022, he had a notable critic in civil rights activist Rosa Parks. A statement attributed to Parks made the rounds on Twitter in July 2022, soon after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, reversing federal abortion protections that had been in place for nearly 50 years. The attribution is correct. Parks became a key figure in the civil rights movement when, in 1955, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery Alabama. For decades she was a symbol of the fight to end racial segregation, until her death in 2005. In 1991, she expressed her opposition to Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court by U.S President George H.W. Bush. Her exact words are saved in the Library of Congress archives. A scan of a typed letter is available in Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Statements; Nomination of Clarence Thomas, 1991. Her letter states (emphasis ours): Thomas had argued that the Supreme Court reached the right conclusion in Brown v. Board of Education but that it used the wrong legal rationale, saying it lacked a rooting in constitutional law and instead relied too much on supposed evidence of psychological damage being done to Black children by racial segregation. Parks, however, disagreed. One of the tweets that quoted her added the supporting citation in an additional post. As a result, we rate this claim as a Correct attribution.
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