Why did Rosa Parks refuse to give her seat on a bus?

Answer 1

It was a planned action on the part of the NAACP. Rosa had been involved in Claudette Colvin's defense, who was the first girl to not give up her seat in Montgomery 9 months earlier. Claudette was raped and became an unwed mother so the NAACP didn't feel she would be capable of taking forward a legal offense on the segregation laws. Neither was the next woman, Mary Louise Smith. Rosa was an upstanding woman with no skeletons in her closet and she was brave and tired of segregation. She wasn't tired from work but tired of the situation.

BTW, it wasn't the first time she refused to move but the first time she was arrested.

Answer 2

Rosa Parks was sitting in the seats designated for African-American riders, but the white section of the bus was full, and several white men were left standing. According to Parks, the bus driver ordered four African-Americans to move so the white men could sit down, waving his arms and telling them, "Y'all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats!" Rosa was tired from working on her feet all day (Rosa later says this was a myth, that she wasn't any more tired than normal. She was tired of giving in and this wasn't the first time she refused to move), and when she was confronted with the racism and the driver's bad attitude, she became determined not to give up her seat. She was subsequently arrested and taken to jail for her defiance.

Answer

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat because she was the kind of person who would fight for something. So one day she was tired and sick of the segregation law and refused to give up her seat. She had refused before and had been put off the bus, she was expecting the same result this time, but she was arrested on this occasion. Her act started the bus boycott two days later. The boycott worked and 13 months later the bus segregation law changed. When Rosa next she rode the bus, she was sitting at the front.

Note: Ms. Parks' refusal was not a spontaneous decision on her part . She was active in the Civil Rights Movement, including raising defense funds for Claudette Colvin who was the first person to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, and this was a planned action. Ms. Parks was indeed tired-- tired of being treated like a second class citizen. In repeated interviews, she objected to the implication that she only said "no' to the driver because she was worn out. She was tired of segregation. For example, she said:

"I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen."

"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

Answer 3

She did not think it was fair for African-Americans to be treated badly by white Americans during the time, so she would not move to the back of the bus for a white passenger to sit in front of the bus, that disobeyed James Blake, the bus driver's orders to move to the back of the bus that made him call the police on her and get her arrested on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 42.

Answer 4

Because she was tired; tired of letting people treat blacks as second class citizens.

Answer 5

Rosa parksdid not give up her seat because she thought it was unfair how black people was treated and she was sitting there first..

Answer 6

Because she thought that whites shouldn't have privilages over blacks.