Yes, and this played a part in why Rosa Parks is "The Famous Rosa Parks".
Rosa wasn't the only one to protest the asinine policy of forcing blacks to sit in the back of the bus. BUT, she was a known quantity to the NAACP, was considered reliable, and had a squeaky clean background. These were the qualities the NAACP needed in someone who would have to go through an ugly legal, political, and PR gauntlet.
So Rosa's case was picked over others to go through the court system. And to her benefit, she showed class both throughout the affair and after everything was said and done.
This was from a different era - back when the NAACP wasn't a bunch of race-baiting numskulls....
Amen, brother. I didn't agree with Frank Zappa about a lot, but he was spot on in the song "Rhymin' Man" about everybody's favorite shakedown artist:
They say when Dr. King got shot,
Jesse hatched an evil plot,
Dipped his hands in the Doctor's blood
and rubbed his shirt like playing with mud
Looked round for all the press, and said
'Check me out, my name is Jess'