During the Montgomery bus boycott, local white officials sought to intimidate African Americans with arrests and lawsuits. Here Rosa Parks, one of ninety-two defendants, enters the Montgomery County courthouse. Parks later said of her actions: “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. … I was not old. … I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Wide World Photos.