My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.
Category Archive: Rosa Parks
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.
It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn’t feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.
In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room… There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.