According to Parks herself it was a spontaneous act: "I did not think about [being the test case for the NAACP] at all. In fact if I had let myself think too d

According to Parks herself it was a spontaneous act: "I did not think about [being the test case for the NAACP] at all. In fact if I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus. But I chose to remain."[1] There's a lot of propaganda chaff around Rosa Parks. It seems that it was neither carefully planned, nor a completely spontaneous act of rebellion. She and a great many other people had been seething about the buses for years, and on that day she had simply had enough. I suspect the "carefully planned NAACP sting operation" narrative arose as a backlash to the equally inaccurate "totally random uninvolved old lady stands up for herself" narrative. [1] https://contexts.org/articles/telling-stories-about-rosa-parks/ https://contexts.org/articles/telling-stories-about-rosa-par...