7/7/2023 0 Comments Rosa at parksThe police were called, she was arrested and charged with breaking a segregation law. She refused, and persisted in her refusal after being hectored by the bus driver and other passengers. Parks and the other people in the first black row were asked to move and to stand in the black section. On her way home on December 1, 1955, she sat in the first row of the black section of a public bus.Ī white man got on the bus at a later stop. Rosa Parks was a seamstress at a downtown Montgomery department store. Parks did, as well as over-simplifying the complicated politics of the civil rights movement. That’s mostly myth, and it obscures all the work that Mrs. She was a simple middle-aged woman trying to get home with no fuss. The general story we’re all taught about Rosa Parks was that she was a meek and mild housewife who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1950s Alabama because she was just tired after a long day at work. “The Only Tired I was, was Tired of Giving In”
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