Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks played a huge role in the Civil Rights movement. On December 1, 1955 Rosa boarded a Montgomery City Bus to go home from work that day. She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. All of the seats in the bus were soon filled. When a white man entered the bus, the driver said that all four blacks sitting just behind the white section had to move so the white man could sit there. Seeing as she was an active member of NAACP, Rosa Parks quietly refused to move. Rosa was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation. Mrs. Parks formally challenged the legality of segregation.