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    Rosa Parks' Pancake Recipe Helps Us See The Human Side Of A Hero

    Parks jotted the recipe down on the back of an envelope. A Library of Congress curator says "this recipe is quintessentially African-American."
    by Dan Pashman May 02, 2017 3 minutes
    Rosa Parks' "Featherlite Pancakes" recipe calls for peanut butter.

    In 2015, after a 10-year legal battle, the Library of Congress released a trove of Rosa Parks' personal documents. Last year the papers were put online for the first time. They include postcards from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., lists of volunteers for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and pages and pages of journals.

    Buried in the Parks collection is another document that doesn't have as much historical significance – but it got my attention. It's a pancake recipe, written on the back of an envelope.

    At first glance, Parks' recipe for "Featherlite Pancakes" seems little

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