what was the name of the colored woman who refused to get off a bus in the deep south USA ages ago?

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Rosa Parks was the lady's name.

I think the term African American is better suited in the climate of the 21st century

Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution.

Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1

http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_r.htm

http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92
Long known as the 'mother of the civil rights movement'

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/24/parks.obit/index.html

Good luck.

Answer 2

Rosa Parks was going home from work and tired and mistakenly sat in a seat designated for whites instead of moving to the back of the bus where the "coloreds" belonged. There were no seats back there so she was told to get off the bus. She refused to move.

What started as an honest mistake by a tired woman became a political statement. The rest is history.

By the way, the word "colored" was dropped out of polite American language in the late 1960s to be replaced by "black." Since then some people have insisted we must call Americans of dark complexion "African-Americans." The few people I know that fit into that group still prefer to be called black. None of them think of themselves as Africans since they were born and bred in America.

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The African-American woman who didn't give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955 was Rosa Parks.