Rosa Parks has been called the "mother of the civil rights movement" (history.com staff) and one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama. Then on December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks was arrested for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. She was found guilty of the crime of disorderly conduct with a fine of fourteen dollars. She was arrested for violating a city law that required all blacks to sit in separate rows on the buses. She refused to give up her seat in the middle of the row when a white person wished to sit in her row. Blacks had to sit in the back and the front rows were for whites only. Rosa Parks was physically tired, but no more than you after a long day's work. In fact, under other circumstances, she would have probably given up her seat willingly to a child or elderly person. Even from the start Rosa hated the segregation. One day she said No, she helped start the civil rights movement for the blacks. …show more content…
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, was arrested December 1, 1955. It was an "established rule" in the American south at the time African-American bus riders had to sit at the back of the bus.( simmer,L.S Rosa Parks) African-American riders were also expected to surrender their seat to a white bus rider if it was needed. Mrs. Parks was not the first African-American to be arrested for this "crime" but she was the first to be arrested who was well known in the Montgomery African-American