
Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist. She was called “the mother of the Modern-Day American civil rights movement ” and ” the mother of the freedom movement “. Parks in best know for what she did in her town of Montgomery ,Alabama on December 1,1955 .While she sat in a seat in the middle of the bus ,the bus driver told her to move to the back of the bus so a white passenger could take the seat in the front of the bus . She was a member of the local chapter on National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) . She was arrested . This led to the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott lasted 381 days.
EARLY YEARS
Her father left home to find work when Rosa was 2 years old. Her mother taught school in another town . Rosa and her brother Sylvester were brought up by their grandparents . Rosa started the school in 1919 when she was 6 years old . At that time , schools were segregated. There were black schools and white schools. In 1924 she went to the Montgomery Industrial School for girls .After 5 years ,she left school and went to work in a shirt factory . On December 1,1955 , Parks got onto a city bus to go home after work . The bus driver ordered Parks and three other black people to give up their seats so the white people could si down . The driver stopped the bus and called pollice. Two pollice officers arrested Parks and took her to jail for violating Alabama’s bus law . The local NAACP had been looking for a test case to challenge the bus segregation la. Parks was a respected working domani. On Monday ,December 5th ,Rosa Parks had to appear in court. This was also the first day black rider would stay off the Montgomery buses . The streets of Montgomery were filled with people walking to work and black children walked to school .




