Tired of Giving in
Eric Foner
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Life of Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley
Weidenfeld, 248 pp, £12.99, January 2001, ISBN 0 297 60708 1
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old black woman who had just completed her day’s work in a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on a city bus to a white passenger, as required by municipal law. The incident sparked a year-long bus boycott, the beginning of the modern phase of the civil rights revolution. And it made Parks, the ‘seamstress with tired feet’ (she was a tailor’s assistant), an international symbol of ordinary blacks’ determination to resist the daily injustices and indignities of the Jim Crow South.
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