60 years ago today Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the non-segregated section of a Montgomery, Ala. bus to a white man. What are your thoughts?

I think of her as brave and a pioneer. I don’t think I would have such courage. The world needs more brave people like her.

I am an elderly white guy and I would give my seat to Rosa any day of the week. I would tip my hat to her as well.

It’s an interesting thought that immortality can result from sheer irritation generated from a bad disposition involving a tough day of work and tired sore feet.

For a while, I also thought she was brave and a pioneer, until I learned about Claudette Colvin, who actually did what Rosa Parks did first. Not saying Rosa wasn’t, but why does she get all the credit?
According to Claudette, “mother told me to be quiet about what I did,” Ms. Colvin recalled. “She told me: ‘Let Rosa be the one. White people aren’t going to bother Rosa — her skin is lighter than yours and they like her.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/01/rosa-parks-the-name-you-know-claudette-colvin-the-one-too-many-dont/

If anyone ever goes to the Henry Ford museum in Michigan, they used to have the Rosa Parks bus(as well as JFK limo and Abe Lincoln chair they were shot in) on display, which is pretty cool. That was quite a few years ago, but I believe they are still there.

She would not have survived the day, nowadays.

It was an act of faith, as well as an act of courage. If not for the brave acts of people such as Parks and Claudette Colvin, I doubt that I would have even met my wife, let alone marry her.

Read the link, @stanleybmanly. Sore feet is part of the myth.

Rosa Parks gets all the credit because she was the right person, in the right place, at the right time, @SquirrelEStuff. She was the required catalyzing force.

@ibstubro Don’t get me wrong. I’m not denigrating Parks nor her significance. She’d been in the civil rights struggle for years and that trip on the bus wasn’t the first time she’d gotten “uppity” with white folks. My speculation was merely paraphrasing what she herself has said.

I wasn’t being a pain, either, @stanleybmanly. It’s just that ‘her feet hurt’ was one of the myths in the article.
Something she likely said in jest at one time, then tried to back away from?

Actually, Rosa Parks was NOT the first women to stand up to oppression, it was Claudette Colvin.
While we always think of Rosa Parks, and her bravery is not to be minimized, this young, teenage women really deserves the first credit.

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101719889

Who’s to say Covin was the first? Perhaps the first widely documented.
I’m certain that Montgomery Alabama wasn’t the only place this protest was occurring.

Rosa Parks was the one that made the difference – her timing and demeanor.
It’s sad that people can’t just give her her due.

@ibstubro Oh, I give her her due, for sure, but a lot of people don’t know that Claudette proceeded Rosa in her bravery by 9 months. I think she should get credit where credit is due as well. I think history needs to be factual.