7/1/2023 0 Comments Rosa Parks by Rosa ParksOn December 1, 1955, Parks, a seamstress by profession, was on her way home from work on a Montgomery municipal bus and sat down in the first row of the “colored” section toward the back of the bus. And eventually, she became an international icon in her own right for resistance to racial segregation. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town at the time of her act of civil disobedience. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Dr. Parks' defiant act and the subsequent Montgomery bus boycott, became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights movement. While she may not have been the first person to challenge the so-called “separate but equal” Jim Crow laws in the deep South, Rosa Parks became known nationwide as “the mother of the freedom movement” when she refused to move to the back of the bus to make room for a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free.
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