Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her act of defiance helped launch the civil rights movement and end legal racial segregation on public buses. She is remembered as "the first lady of civil rights" and her courageous stand helped pave the way for dismantling Jim Crow laws across the United States.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her act of defiance helped launch the civil rights movement and end legal racial segregation on public buses. She is remembered as "the first lady of civil rights" and her courageous stand helped pave the way for dismantling Jim Crow laws across the United States.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her act of defiance helped launch the civil rights movement and end legal racial segregation on public buses. She is remembered as "the first lady of civil rights" and her courageous stand helped pave the way for dismantling Jim Crow laws across the United States.