The Importance of Rosa Parks
Rosa parks was an important person in the time of the Civil Rights Movement. She was a 42-year-old African American women who worked as a seamstress. She was also an active member of the NAACP. On December 1, 1955 she started a new era towards the quest for freedom. On her way home from work she got on the bus and sat in the white section of the bus. Rosa got arrested for violating the laws of segregation. While she was in jail, local Civil Rights activists organized a boycott against the Montgomery bus system. The group that organized the boycott was called Montgomery Improvement Association, and was composed of local activists and ministers. The MIA chose a young Baptist minister new to Montgomery, his name was Martin Luther King, Jr.. The boycott lasted 381 days into December 1956. The U.S. Supreme court ruled that the segregation laws were unconstitutional and the Montgomery buses were integrated. Rosa was the women who made the world start to see y the Civil Rights movement was so important.