Rosa Parks

After finishing a tiring day of work as a tailor’s assistant in a department store, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. Just as all the blacks were to, she paid the bus fair in the front, and sat in an empty seat in the back. After a few stops, the seats in the front of the bus became full and a white man who had boarded, stood in the aisle. The driver of the bus asked Rosa, the man next to her, and the two women to let the white man have their seats. As the others listened and moved, Rosa remained in her seat. The driver again asked her to move, but had refused. The driver then called the police and she was arrested. The arrest of Parks sparked the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott in Montgomery, which in time led to the desegregation...