WI: Rosa Parks gave up her seat?

Stupid questain realy, and probably already been asked, but what would have happend if the event that is acknowledged by most to have kicked of the civil rights movemnt never happend? Disscus.
 
Well, considering that it turned up recently that her "spontaneous sit in" was part of a staged event to draw public notice to the inequities of Jim Crow (and it worked better than they could have hoped!) it's not really a POD option unless she somehow lost her nerve (unlikely...she was a take-no-crap kind of gal! :cool:).
 
well, remember, Rosa Parks wasn't the 1st black person to have refused to give up her seat on a Jim Crow bus- there were a few such earlier instances of civil disobedience during WWII also- most notably with a certain young Lt Jackie Robinson of the 761st Tank Bn in July 1944 arguing with a certain bus-driver over being forced to move to the back of a bus. Which raises an interesting POD- WI this incident for Jackie actually triggered the civil disobedience component of the civil rights movement a decade earlier ?

Also, even if Rosa Parks had given up her seat, there no doubt would still have been other aggrieved black ppl somewhere in the South who would've likewise performed such an act of civil disobedience against Jim Crow, to trigger such non-violent resistance during the 1950s.
 
Some other civil rights worker would have done the same. Maybe it would be somewhat staged as it was with Parks, or it could be one of the dozens of other men and women who had been doing the same move for years before hand.

Recall the boondocks episode with MLK in it? Robert Freeman was prank calling Rosa Parks cause it turns out he started the whole thing and she got credit for it. History is showing that while she was part of an important event, it was not the intense personal struggle she engaged on her own, or a woman so tired from a hard days work that she refuse to give in anymore.
 
Yeah, I'd have to agree that thsi is like other similar PODs- someone else would do it.
You'd really have to say 'WI no black people give up their seat'....which is a bit asb.
 
I heard that someone preceeded her and that Rosa Parks was the preferred person for the history books because the predecessor was a single parent. Nothing much would have changed as others have pointed out, someone else would have done it.

Change had to come and the civil rights movement would have taken off, the anger was there and progress was slow Little Rock played a role as well

What is amazing about the Rosa Parks incident is the unrepentant attitude of the bus driver years later. He stood to lose his job if he didn't do something and if he hadn't Rosa Parks would not have made her point but far from apologising and saying that he was only doing his job, he was totally unrepentant
 
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