As appeals and related lawsuits wended their way through the courts, all the way up to the U. Her husband, brother and mother all died of cancer between and But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Parks was not the first African American woman to be arrested for refusing to yield her seat on a Montgomery bus. Nine months before Parks was jailed, year-old Claudette Colvin was the first Montgomery bus passenger to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a Twelve years later, on December 1, , on her way home from a long day of work as a department store Revered as a civil rights icon, Rosa Parks is best known for sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but her activism in the Black community predates that day.
When Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man in , she was put in handcuffs and arrested. But what happened next? The answer to that question just became more clear thanks to a new discovery: disintegrating court records that detail the legal The civil rights movement was an organized effort by Black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law. It began in the late s and ended in the late s.
Although tumultuous at times, the movement was mostly nonviolent and resulted in laws to Rosa Parks was not only an influential figure in her own time, she also contributed to a fundamental change in US society. She was born into a society where segregation of colored people was common in many everyday activites. It could be separate sections in buses, separate schools, rest rooms and drinking fountains. At the age of 42, on December 1, , Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person, even though the bus driver commanded her to do so.
This took place in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks was arrested, an event that ignited sparks of discontent, and resulted in a massive bus boycott in Montgomery. This boycott lasted until December 20, , when the US Supreme Court decided that laws allowing segregated buses were unconstitutional.
Numerous other activists protested in the same way as Rosa Parks did. Growing up in the segregated South, Parks was frequently confronted with racial discrimination and violence. She became active in the Civil Rights Movement at a young age. Parks married a local barber by the name of Raymond Parks when she was He was actively fighting to end racial injustice. Together the couple worked with many social justice organizations. By the time Parks boarded the bus in , she was an established organizer and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.
Parks not only showed active resistance by refusing to move she also helped organize and plan the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks denied the claim and years later revealed her true motivation:. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then.
I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Parks courageous act and the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott led to the integration of public transportation in Montgomery. The family moved to Montgomery; Rosa went to school and became a seamstress. Later, as secretary of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, she traveled throughout the state interviewing victims of discrimination and witnesses to lynchings. In the wake of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Parks lost her tailoring job and received death threats.
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