{"id":12189,"date":"2015-12-02T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T05:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=12189"},"modified":"2016-11-01T04:23:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:23:13","slug":"rosa-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/rosa-parks","title":{"rendered":"60 Years Ago, Rosa Parks Was Arrested  For Refusing To Give Up Her Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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This year marked the 60th anniversary of her arrest, so many on social media took the opportunity to remember the iconic figure in the civil rights movement. Here are five facts you may not know about her and the movement she inspired:<\/p>\n<h2>1. She was an activist all her life<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12192\" style=\"width: 703px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/99745237069a6fd45bde52d5665ac561.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"703\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/99745237069a6fd45bde52d5665ac561.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/99745237069a6fd45bde52d5665ac561-85x67.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/130204072928-03-rosa-parks-exlarge-169.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rosa Parks is often described as quiet and timid. She managed to keep her cool during the incident, but she was far from timid. Parks was a vocal activist that had been fighting against white supremacy long before she refused to give up her seat. In 1943, she joined the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and became branch secretary. She fought for voter registration, black victims of brutality and violence, wrongfully accused black men, and for desegregation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/gallerypage]<\/p>\n<p>[gallerypage]<\/p>\n<h2>2. She did not stay in her seat because she was tired<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12193\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/130204072928-03-rosa-parks-super-169.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/130204072928-03-rosa-parks-super-169.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/130204072928-03-rosa-parks-super-169-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/130204072928-03-rosa-parks-super-169-85x48.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/e9\/61\/2e\/e9612e5c85f1ca22fc6776bdf5e4241d.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some have the image of Parks being a tired, meek woman who was victimized by the bus driver. But she made the choice to defy a law that she did not think was fair. Parks herself said:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople always say that I didn\u2019t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn\u2019t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I was at the end of a working day\u2026. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/gallerypage]<\/p>\n<p>[gallerypage]<\/p>\n<h2>3. She was not sitting in the whites-only section<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12195\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pzatz.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pzatz.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pzatz-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/pzatz-85x64.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PZatZ.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She did not sit in the whites-only section of the bus to try and pick a fight. Parks was following the law and sitting in the middle seats, which were first-come-first-serve. The bus driver could kick black passengers out of those seats if any white passengers were standing. When the driver noticed that one white passenger was standing in the front, he demanded all of the black passengers in one of the middle rows to go to the back. Instead of getting up like the others, Parks moved from the aisle to the window to make room for the passenger. She refused to get up because she had gotten there first and paid the fare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/gallerypage]<\/p>\n<p>[gallerypage]<\/p>\n<h2><strong>4. She had clashed with the bus driver before<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12196\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/b3wnooacuaacc1z.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"705\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/b3wnooacuaacc1z.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/b3wnooacuaacc1z-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B3wNooACUAACc1Z.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bus driver\u2019s name was James F. Blake, and he had a reputation for mistreating black passengers. Sometimes, he would make them pay the fare in the front and reenter in the back, then drive off before they could reboard. Parks had gotten into a conflict with Blake about 12 years before &#8211; he had tried to make her reboard from the back and forced her off when she refused. Since then, Parks made sure to avoid him. But on December 1st, she boarded without noticing he was the driver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/gallerypage]<\/p>\n<p>[gallerypage]<\/p>\n<h2>5. She was not the first black woman arrested for protesting on a bus<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12197\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/walkers_jpg.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"710\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/walkers_jpg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/walkers_jpg-85x58.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sites.si.edu\/images\/exhibits\/381\/new\/images\/walkers_jpg.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first arrest was nine months earlier. 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for not giving up her seat. Her actions would later influence Parks, who inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/apple-black\">SEE ALSO:\u00a0An Apple Store Employee In Australia Unfairly Kicks Out 7 Black Students.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/gallerypage]<\/p>\n<p>[\/onepage]<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[onepage] [gallerypage] On December 1st 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[142],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>60 Years Ago, Rosa Parks Was Arrested For Refusing To Give Up Her Seat<\/title>\n<meta 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