Rosa Parks was as African American woman who worked hard as a seamstress in a department store in the early 1960s. One day, tired from work, she refusred to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and became a national hero. She was arrested and placed in jail for her refusal to move to the back of the bus, where African Amernicans were forced to sit in those days the way she was treated garnered national Some people say he refusal to give up her seat launched the civil right movement. Rosa Parks proved that one brave person can make a difference