I thought back to the time when I used to sit up all night and didn’t sleep, and my grandfather would have his gun right by the fireplace, or if he had his one-horse wagon going anywhere, he always had his gun in the back of the wagon. People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. In My Story (Links to an external site.), why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955? A She wanted to go to court.
B She was too tired from work.
C She was sick of segregation.
D She wanted to get arrested.