Rosa Parks Refuses to Move (1955)
Thu Dec 01, 1955
On this day in 1955, civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver’s order to relinquish her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Although the NAACP bailed her out of jail, both Parks and her husband lost their jobs.
Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, nor was it the first time she herself refused to accommodate the bus laws. As early as 1943, Parks exited the bus rather than to give up her seat and continue riding. Parks said “My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest. I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.”
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), for whom Parks worked as a secretary, believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge because she was perceived as a responsible, mature woman with a good reputation. Accordingly, the NAACP bailed her out of jail after her arrest.
Due to economic sanctions used against activists, Parks lost her job at the department store, and her husband quit his job after his boss forbade him to talk about his wife or her legal case. Parks was convicted in a local trial within a week of her arrest, and the appeals process was greatly slowed by the state government of Alabama. From the economic pressure of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, eventually the city conceded and reversed its segregation bus laws.
- Date: 1955-12-01
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.washingtonpost.com.
- Tags: #Civil Rights.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
“The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), for whom Parks worked as a secretary, believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge because she was perceived as a responsible, mature woman with a good reputation.”
As opposed to the unwed pregnant 15 year old girl who actually did what Rosa parks was imitating when she staged her protest…
Claudette Colvin defied the bus segregation laws long before Rosa parks did, and she did it with no support, no encouragement from anyone, in exactly the manner history credits Rosa parks for having done, just straight up stood for what was right, all by herself. Colvin just didn’t have the pedigree for the pedestal, so Rosa imitated her months later. They didn’t have any issues using colvins name as a co-plaintiff in the court cases, but God forbid an actual poor person end up in any history books.
God bless you Ms Colvin, and I hope the world somehow realizes your true value before you’re gone :)
Hopefully she gets the recognition she deserves eventually. I mean we finally realized what a duchebag Columbus was…
Put her name in the comments of whatever you come across posted about Rosa Parks.
If you forget her name, Google “who actually didn’t give up their seat on the bus”… The real story is everywhere and not actually hard to find :)
If there was segregation law today, mfers wouldnt use it because of social anxiety.
