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Rosa Parks was an African American seamstress who for her bravery and how she helped bring racial in America to an end.
On December 1, 1955 she was ordered to give up her to a white passenger on a Montgomery Alabama bus. When she to move, the bus driver had her arrested. She was fined for breaking the law.
According to Alabama law at that time, white people sat in the front rows of a bus and black people sat in the back rows. When the black was full they had to stand. When more white people the bus the blacks had to get up and give their seats to the whites. Sometimes blacks had to get on the bus at the front, the fare to the bus driver, get off and enter again through the back door.
Parks’ led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted for over a year. It by Martin Luther King. He urged African Americans in Montgomery not to use the city buses and an end to segregation. In the months during the boycott African Americans in Montgomery were and attacked. In 1956 the American Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was .
What Rosa Parks did gave the civil rights more momentum. In the years that followed African Americans fought harder for rights until, finally, in 1964, the Civil Rights Act was .
Rosa Parks is often called the mother of the civil rights movement. In her later life she an activist and fought for justice. After the Rosa Parks lost her job and moved to Detroit where she spent the rest of her life. She an institute that shows young people how important civil rights are. Rosa Parks died in 2002 at the age of 92.