Who is Rosa Parks?
The Year is 1955 One day in December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was tired from a busy day at work. She was tired of sitting in the back of the bus. But mostly, she was tired of the wrongness of things. It didn’t make any sense. It had never made any sense. There was a law in Alabama that required persons of color to ride in the back of the bus. If the bus was crowded, and a white person wanted to sit in the colored section, a person of color had to give up their seat and stand. Why should she have to give up her seat, just because she was colored? That day, when the bus driver told her to move to allow a white person to be seated, Mrs. Parks refused. She did not argue. She simply refused to get up and move. She could have been hurt. Someone could have shoved her or hit her. No one did. The bus driver called the police. The police took Mrs. Parks away to jail. It was not the first time someone had refused to move. But it was the first time that
