Rosa Parks didn’t refuse to give up her seat because she was tired…at least not physically
Parks was already seated in a “colored” section of her bus when a driver asked her to move further back to make room for a white man who wanted a seat, as all the seats in the whites-only section were full. She repeatedly refused to get up. But as Parks said, despite coming home from work, she was not physically tired.
And while she’s depicted as an older woman, she was merely 42 years old. To put that in perspective folks, Meagan Good is 41.
This is important because Rosa Parks was not passively protesting Jim Crow segregation; she was boldly and strategically defying it. As she said later, “I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
