Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks October 24, 2005) was an African-American Civil Rights, whom the United States
Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".Rosa
Parks was born in Alabama on February 4, 1913 .Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or
rather, sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African
American, was tired after a long day of work and decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home.
Because she sat down and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, she was arrested for
disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus
was full. (Blacks also had to sit at the back of the bus.) Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the
Montgomery bus system. It also led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on
public transportation. Who was Rosa Parks, the woman who helped spark the civil rights movement
of the 1960s? .On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white
man who was standing as all the white seats had been taken. She was arrested and on December
5th, a boycott of the buses started that lasted for 381 days. The boycott only ended when shop
keepers in Montgomery urged a settlement as their livelihoods were being ruined as so few AfricanAmericans went into Montgomery to do any shopping. In 1956, the Supreme Court deemed that
segregation on buses was unconstitutional. Along with the Brown decision of 1954, this legal
ruling is seen as being of great significance in civil rights history. Parks was given the title Mother
of the Civil Rights Movement though it is a title she is modest about.