Rosa parks
Kade maioha sst
By refusing to give up her seat
to a white man on a Montgomery,
Alabama, city bus in 1955. She got
arrested for not giving up her seat.
Black seamstress Rosa Parks 1913 2005
helped initiate the civil rights movement in
the United States. The leaders of the local
black community organized a bus boycott that
began the day Parks was convicted violating the
segregation laws. Led by a young Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. the boycott lasted
more than a year during which Parks not
coincidentally lost her job and ended only
when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
bus segregation was unconstitutional.
Over the next half century, Parks
became a nationally recognized
symbol of dignity and strength
in the struggle to end entrenched
racial segregation.
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