I enjoyed the Boycott movie....and I love and idolize Mrs. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. Her husband did support her -- as she stood by his side when he was heavily involved in the NAACP and the Scottsboro boys case. She says in her book: " later I came to understand that he was always interested in and willing to work for things that would improve life for his race, his family, and himself." Also, she had been put off of the bus prior to the incident which started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In 1943, Mrs. Parks boarded a bus which was very crowded in the rear and there were lots of empty seats in the front. She entered the bus from the front and went to the back. The driver told her to get off the bus and go to the back door and get on. She told him she was already on the bus and did not see the need of getting off and getting back on when people were standing in the stairwell. The bus driver told her that if she did not go through the back door, she would have to get off the bus - "my bus" he called it. He came to the back and grabbed her coat sleeve and was pulling her toward the front, in the meantime, she dropped her purse. Instead of bending over or stooping to pick it up, she sat right in one of the empty front seats to pick up her purse ( gotta love it!) The driver then told her, to get off his bus. She replied " I will get off". She further states that he looked so mad, that he looked like he was going to hit her and she said : " I know one thing, you better not hit me." She got off the bus and never wanted to be on that man's bus again. After that incident she made it a point of looking to see who was driving the bus before she got on.
Sorry for the long post, but I was just spreading a little knowledge.
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