rosa was homeschooled by her mother until she was eleven.
then she attended a privte school in Montgomery Alabama called the Montgomery industrial school for girls.
During that time in America black people were not given the same rights as white people. rosa remembered living in fear as a child because of the perjudices insults and violence towards blacks.
she attended college,but had to drop out to care for her ill grandmother ,and then later her mother.
she married Raymond parks,who was a barber.
Rosa worked as a seamstress,a difficult and tiring job.
to go to work,she rode the bus.
During that time,the souther U.S. was segregated.
things were different for white people and black people.
they had different schools,different churches,different stores,different elevators, and even different drinking fountains. places had signs saying "For Colored only "For Whites only".
Black people could not sit just anywhere they wanted in the bus.
they had to sit in the back of the bus.
if the bus filled up with people,the driver would ask a black person to move so he could reposition the movable sign which divided the black and white sections.
on december 1,1995 after a hard day at work,Rosa was riding the bus home when the driver asked her and three black men to move to make more room in the white section.
the three men moved,but Rosa refused.
A police officer came,arrested her,and took her to jail.
she was bailed out that evening.
she did not plan the incident,but when it happened, she decided to stand up for her rights.
She was tiredof being humiliated and treated unfairly.
She was not the first black person to refuse to move on a bus,but when the event happened to her, black leaders knew they had found someone to champion their cause
.Rosa was a person who was above reproach, and people could not find fault with her character