Rosa Parks

Daniel Kattan
Who is Rosa Parks?

Called "the mother of the civil rights

movement," Rosa Parks invigorated
the struggle for racial equality when
she refused to give up her bus seat to a
white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
The US Congress has also called her
"the mother of the freedom
movement"
 Why she is
important?
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her
seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus
for white passengers in 1955, she was
arrested for violating the city’s 
racial segregation ordinances. Her action
sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, led
by the Montgomery Improvement
Association and Martin Luther King, Jr.,
that eventually succeeded in achieving
desegregation of the city buses. The
boycott also helped give rise to the 
American civil rights movement.
Some information

Born:
 February 4, 1913 Tuskegee Alabama
Died:
 October 24, 2005 (aged
92) Detroit Michigan
Role In:
 American civil rights
movement Montgomery bus boycott
Was sge the first one
to refuse giving her
seat?
Rosa Parks was not the first
Black woman to refuse to give
up her seat on a segregated bus,
though her story attracted the
most attention nationwide.
Nine months before Parks, 15-
year-old Claudette Colvin had
refused to give up her bus seat,
as had dozens of other Black
women throughout the history
of segregated public transit.
 Arrest and bus
boycott

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 Bus segregation diagram

White only
seating

Black seating
Rosa Parks Reserved if white section full
«You must never be
fearful about what
you are doing when it
is right.
—Rosa Parks»