why is rosa parks considered famous?

Answer 1

I guess you could call her the mother of the civil rights movement. In the 1950's, black people had to sit in the back of the bus,whether there were vacant seats up front or not.On this particular day, Rosa Parks was tired and sat up front in the white section.She was asked to move, but refused. She was arrested which caused the civil rights leaders of the time to boycott riding the buses. This boycott went on for at least a year.I think, which made the bus company lose money. Eventually,the bus company gave up and let the blacks sit where ever they wanted.These kinds of overt racism occurred mainly in the south. I hope I've helped clarify your question.

Answer 2

She refused to move to the back of the bus, when the bus ran out of seats in the front for whites. She was prosecuted and became the test case plaintiff in a lawsuit in Alabama that ended up desegregating the bus lines. But before that could happen, her action led to the Montgomery bus boycott, a year-long effort led by Martin Luther King, who was an obscure minister before that, but became the leader of the civil rights movement as a result.

Answer 3

Rosa Parks was the first African American woman to take a seat at the front of the bus when Blacks were considered second class citizens. Very, very, courageous Lady! I was very sorry to hear of her death.

Answer 4

i think its because she was a woman who chose not to get up fro her seat...

but thats strange becaue I was reading a book by Martin Luther King Jr. called "Stride toward freedom" and he states that this happend many times before this Rosa Parks situation. Im not sure what makes her so much different.

Answer 5

She stood fast and refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. This led to the Montgomery bus boycott, an example of a boycott that really worked!

Answer 6

you can along with popular myth that she stood up to the white man and refused to give up her bus seat...yes, that took tremendous courage...but she was in a secretary position for one of the civil rights groups ( it mightve been the NAACP) and she agreed to be planted in the bus and refuse to give up her seat...she actually had been trying for some time before -- riding buses across the city waiting for a white man to demand her to move.....so this event sparked the national bus boycott and its definitely famous...but the actualy refusal was less glamorous than portrayed

Answer 7

because she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and move to the rear of the bus this helped get the civil rights movement started

Answer 8

rosa parks had the gall to stand up for her rights and keep her seat on a bus that only whites was to sit in . rosa keep her seat and in my opion she was in the right to do what she did. my opion?

Answer 9

She stood up to for her rights as a Human being. Which at that time were denied her because she was black. It was dangerous, but yet she took that seat on the bus.

Answer 10

She stood up to the segregation on the Montgomery Bus Lines