Rosa Parks, is known as the "mother of the civil rights movement". She was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Rosa Parks lived in Montgomery, Alabama, at the time of her righteous act. In December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger could sit down. The bus driver had her arrested, for basically not being "nice" to a white passenger. Rosa Parks was convicted of violating a local ordinance.
Her act inspired a citywide boycott of the bus system by blacks that lasted more than a year.This really hurt the bus system considering that blacks were the main people to ride the bus. AS a result of this boycottt Martin Luther King, Jr, started to speak out for black all over the south. The U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city buses. Over the next four decades, she helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle. This pioneer in the struggle for racial equality was the recipient of some honors, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
