She wasn’t sitting in the white section. She was sitting in the colored section. The event was that the white section was full, so a white lady that didn’t have a seat complained to the bus driver and he asked Rosa Parks to move per policy at the time. Rosa Parks refused, which provided the spark for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Fun fact: This wasn’t a wild event that just happened and Rosa Parks wasn’t the first Black persons to refuse to move. The NAACP were already planning a legal challenge to the law and the bus boycott needed something to trigger it in order to politically pressure the legal case. They believed that Rosa Parks had the qualities needed to be the proper political spark for the boycott.

Another fun fact: Rosa Parks sued LaFace Records over Outkast using her name with out permission for their song song titled after her. The initial suit was dismissed in 1999, but it came back in 2004. Parks’ family argued that this behavior was not like her and believed her caretakers and lawyers were the ones pushing for the law suit. An ex Michigan Supreme Court justice was placed in charge of her affairs and LaFace/Outkast settled with her privately out of court.