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“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”
#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Parks was not the first Black woman to be arrested for refusing to move.
Irene Morgan had refused in Virginia in 1946.
Lillie Mae Bradford refused in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1951.
Sarah Louise Keyes refused in Carolina in 1952.
Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald and Mary Louise Smith were all arrested in Montgomery months before Parks.
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But Parks was the one that NAACP thought had the best chance of seeing through the legal challenges they brought after her arrest, and of gaining support.
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired,” wrote Parks in her autobiography, “but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
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