workingclasshistory:

On this day, 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks, a Black civil rights activist, refused her bus driver’s order that she give up her seat in the “coloured” section to a white passenger after the white section was filled. Contrary to the popular myth that Parks was simply a woman who was tired at the end of the work day and so refused to stand up, she was actually an activist dedicated to fighting segregation, had attended direct action training and had undertaken fundraising work to support other Black women who had previously been arrested for refusing to vacate their seats for white people in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks later declared “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Her act triggered a widespread bus boycott across the city and gave added impetus to the civil rights movement. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1597406647111146/?type=3