She is considered the mother of the modern day civil rights movement because she was the catalyst for the year long bus boycott in Alabama.
Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she relinquish her seat to a white man. Her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organizers of the boycott, to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Her
2007-05-07 03:53:01
·
answer #1
·
answered by thequeenreigns 7
·
0⤊
0⤋
Check out the Rosa Parks Museum and information page at http://montgomery.troy.edu/rosaparks
She was a woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person at a time when law required blacks to stand if there were no seats for whites. Her protest sparked the bus boycotts organized by Dr. King. It was the catalyst for the Civil Rights movement in the south.
2007-05-07 10:56:28
·
answer #2
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus. She's one of the pioneers of Civil Rights.
2007-05-07 10:55:54
·
answer #3
·
answered by Bob-O 3
·
0⤊
0⤋
She didn't have a movement, she didn't sit down.
2007-05-07 11:10:46
·
answer #4
·
answered by krg427 2
·
0⤊
0⤋