Rosa Parks Mugshot T-Shirt

Parks was an anti-segregation activist. She was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP. She'd attended civil-rights trainings. She'd actually tried to raise money for the release of other young black women who'd been arrested after refusing to stand on Montgomery buses earlier in 1955 — but whom other black leaders considered to be inappropriate spokespeople for a campaign. As Parks herself later put it, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."