Yana Richens Consultant midwife, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital, London We should be ashamed of how we treat students who question policy, warns Yana Richens In December 1955, a tired black woman who had been working as a seamstress boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was asked to give up her seat by a white man, but she refused and was arrested. Nursing Standard. 20, 36, 28-28. doi: 10.7748/ns.20.36.28.s35 Want to read more?