Rosa Parks, in her acts of courage and defiance in the fight against racial segregation in the state of Montgomery, Alabama in the United States of America in 1955, changed the course of history. Her actions caused riots in every state in the United States of America (USA) by People of Colour (POC) and white people alike. Segregation forced POC to sit at the rear of the bus with the first four rows dedicated to white people. Heroic in her action to stand up for herself and other POC, she created the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her dedicated leadership, with the support of Civil Right Activist Dr. Martin Luther King, inspired a nation of people. By refusing to give her seat up to a white man,, she changed the course of history.
Rosas mother educated her at home, her mother also taught at a nearby school for most of her childhood. Rosa helped with
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People of Colour had to walk to school and many other places because public transportation was denied to them. Other essentials such as drinking fountains, restaurants and schools were all segregated under The Jim crow laws.
Circling back to a major event in Rosa Parks life, The Montgomery Bus Boycott. In December of 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white person on a city bus. Laws said that African American passengers were ONLY allowed to sit at the back and if the white section became full then the African Americans had to give their seats up if asked. In what was a deliberately started protest, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up which led to her arrest. But she was bailed out later that day by a local civil rights leader.
At the time of the arrest Rosa led a youth division in the Montgomery branch of NAACP. Her anger of the lynching of 14-year-old boy, Emmet Till, and the failure to bring his murderers to justice inspired the protest and stand up that became a piece of