USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rosa Parks (1913-2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.

Detailed explanation-2: -Called “the mother of the civil rights movement, ” Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks’ arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17, 000 black citizens.

Detailed explanation-3: -While travelling by a bus, she refused to give up her seat to a white man. Her refusal caused a huge agitation against unequal treatment of the African-Americans by the white person: It took the form of the Civil Rights Movement. As a result, the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1955, Parks rejected a bus driver’s order to leave a row of four seats in the “colored” section once the white section had filled up and move to the back of the bus. Her defiance sparked a successful boycott of buses in Montgomery a few days later.

Detailed explanation-5: -The following year, Parks volunteered on John Conyers’ first congressional campaign for Michigan’s newly redrawn first district, on a platform of “Jobs, Justice, Peace.” After he was elected to Congress, Conyers hired her to work in his Detroit office, where she remained until her retirement in 1988.