Rosa Parks in 1955, with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the background Photo: Wikipedia.com
The Civil Rights activist who was called “The first lady of civil right” when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955. Rosa Park was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Parks’ act of civil disobedience in in 1955 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted from December 1 to December 20, 1956, became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her sit as instructed by the white bus driver after the white section was filled. At the time Rosa Park was the secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and deemed the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for violating Alabama segregation laws.
During the Civil Right Movement Parks helped organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Martin Luther King, Jr.