Have you ever been wrongfully treated or discriminated against by society for something you couldn’t control, like the color of your skin? Rosa Parks, a black woman, advocated for equal rights for black people ever since she was a young girl. She’s famous for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, though she was not the first one do this. She was arrested, which sparked several groups of people to help stand up for the rights of black people and other minorities. Rosa Parks worked to change society by involving herself in the Civil Rights movement and advocating continuously for black rights.
Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4th, 1913. Despite the segregation of African-American people, According to Eric Badertscher’s biography on Rosa Parks, she still managed to receive a good education. Her mother was a
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She sat in the designated ‘coloured’ section. However, the bus was very full and when a white person boarded the bus, the bus driver had told all the people sitting in the same row as Parks had to stand instead. She refused, so the bust driver called the police on her and she was arrested. She was released that night on bail. Her arrest sparked the NAACP forming a boycott of Montgomery’s city buses, to protest the unfair segregation of non-white, specifically black, people. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for 381 days, and was a huge success. “The Montgomery Bus Boycott, as it came to be known, was a huge success, lasting for 381 days. The city's buses were, by and large, empty. Some people carpooled and others rode in African-American-operated cabs, but most of the estimated 40,000 African-American commuters living in the city at the time had opted to walk to work that day—some as far as 20 miles”( “Rosa Parks.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 27 Feb. 2018,