Rosa parks

In the 1950's, the American South was segregated: black people couldn't go to white schools, restaurants or cinemas.

Blacks and Whites had separate public toilets and water fountains, and separate sections on buses and trains.

Black people had to sit in the back of the bus. If white people didn't have enought seats, they could take black seats!

In 1955, a woman named Rosa Parks decided it was time to change all that.

On 1 December, 1955, Rosa Parks got on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama after a day's work.

She sat in a seat for black people.

A white man wanted Rosa's seat, but she refused.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist. She was called "the mother of the Modern-Day American civil rights movement" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

She was arrested. This led to the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott lasted 381 days. This caused a change in the law. After that, black people were able to sit wherever they wanted to on the bus. Her refusal to let others treat her differently was an important symbol in the campaign against racial segregation

Que was the best woman in my opinion and one of the most important for the society.

Parks is best known for what she did in her home town of Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955. While she sat in a seat in the middle of the bus, the bus driver told her to move to the back of the bus so a white passenger could take the seat in the front of the bus. During this time, when there were no white seats for white people, black people were told to get up out of their seat. Parks refused to move. She was a member of the local chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Like so many others she was tired of being treated as a lower class person because of the color of her skin.

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