Was Rosa Parks chosen do do what she did?

Answer 1

No, Rosa Parks was not chosen to do what she did. Sometimes a movement, like the Civil Rights Movement, will choose from among themselves a specific person to perform an act of civil disobedience in order to provoke an arrest and public sympathy for a cause. This was not the case with Rosa Parks. She chose to do what she did on the spur of the moment. She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. She hated the segregated buses of he home town in Montgomery, but she sat in the colored section like she was supposed to. When the white section was filled, the bus driver asked her to give up her seat to a white man. That was too much for her to take. She kept her seat. She was arrested. Her friends at the NAACP were outraged. They organized a boycott of the Montgomery buses that lasted for more than a year, but it was finally successful in integrating the bus system. Blacks and Whites could sit together in the front of the bus (or the back of the bus) where ever they wanted to sit.

Answer 2

Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the more publicized Rosa Parks and she was among the five women originally included in the federal court case, filed on February 1, 1956 as Browder v. Gayle, and testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case in the United States District Court. She was only 15 years old were Rosa was 42 at the time of her case. The other women were, Aurelia Browder, Mary Louise Smith and Susie McDonald.

Why was Rosa chosen? At the time of the occurrences on the buses, the leader of the movement didn't know that some women were being breaking the segregation laws to make their cases heard. In about 9 months later Martin Luther king jump out in the next case which was the Rosa Park's case.