Booking Rosa

Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up a seat to a white passenger. It may not be well known that she was sitting in the black section. There is a rule though that if you are in the black section and the whites do not have a seat the driver can get you to move back or stand. The idea is not only to get a white man a seat but to get a white passenger all of the row. Three other passengers in that row moved back but Rosa refused. I am sure there was a seat available to the white passenger but they wanted all the rows cleared and she was arrested not for giving up her seat but for not clearing out her row. The same driver had evicted her from a bus 12 year earlier after she paid her fare, she had to leave the bus to enter from the back door and he drove off leaving her in the rain. This too was the custom.