On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, rosa Parks refused to obey bus rules, which she was order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.
Parks was not the first to resist bus segregation. Others had taken similar steps in the twentieth century, including Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and Claudette Colin months before Parks, but people against segregation ,believed that Parks was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience.Rosa Parks act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leader.
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