![]() She knew that the bus driver could have shot her, as bus drivers were allowed to carry guns. She was 42 and simply “tired of giving in”. ![]() ![]() She was not, as many believe, a tired old lady. She had just finished a long day of work and was “no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day”. A Chain of Unstoppable Events Image Credit: Harvard University / Wikimedia Commons It is with these words that Rosa Parks describes her decision not to give up her bus seat on that fateful 1st December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. If I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus. “People have asked me if it occurred to me then that I could be the test case the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) had been looking for. “As I sat there, I tried not to think about what might happen, I knew anything was possible. ![]()
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