In her autobiography, Rosa Parks debunked the myth that she refused to vacate her seat because she was tired after a long day at work. “I was not tired physically,” she wrote, “I was not old, I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” #BlackHistoryMonth
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Parks was sitting in the middle section of the bus open to African Americans . After the “whites-only” section filled up & a white man was left standing, the driver demanded that Parks & 3 others in the row leave their seats. While the other three eventually moved, Parks did not.
Her act of civil disobedience was not pre-meditated. She did not set out to be arrested. Parks wrote that she was so preoccupied that day that if she hadn’t failed to notice that a notorious racist was the driver, “I wouldn’t even have gotten on that bus.”
Weeks after her arrest, Parks was jailed a second time for her role in the boycott.
Parks was on the executive board of directors of the group organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and she worked for a short time as a dispatcher, arranging carpool rides for boycotters.
Parks was on the executive board of directors of the group organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and she worked for a short time as a dispatcher, arranging carpool rides for boycotters.
On February 21, 1956, a grand jury handed down indictments against Parks and dozens of others for violating a state law against organized boycotting. She and 114 others were arrested, and The New York Times ran a front-page photograph of Parks being fingerprinted by police
Parks was forced to move from Montgomery soon after the boycott.
Weeks after her arrest, Parks lost her department store job. Her husband quit his job after being told that there could be no discussion of the boycott or his wife in the workplace.
Weeks after her arrest, Parks lost her department store job. Her husband quit his job after being told that there could be no discussion of the boycott or his wife in the workplace.
Throughout the boycott and beyond, Parks received threatening phone calls and death threats. In 1957 she, along with her husband and mother, moved to Detroit, where she eventually worked as an administrative aide for Congressman John Conyers, Jr., and lived the rest of her life.
Parks was the first woman to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.
After she died at age 92 on October 24, 2005, she received a final tribute when her body was brought to the U.S. Capitol rotunda. More than 30,000 people paid their respects in person. H/T: history.com/news/10-things…
After she died at age 92 on October 24, 2005, she received a final tribute when her body was brought to the U.S. Capitol rotunda. More than 30,000 people paid their respects in person. H/T: history.com/news/10-things…
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