Citizens-Leaders: Rosa Parks
•On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks left work and boarding a bus to go home. She found a seat, soon however, a white man who was standing demanded her seat (Montgomery, Alabama’s customary practice required that all four blacks sitting in the same row would have to stand in order to allow one white man to sit, since no black person was allowed to sit parallel with a white person). Parks refused and the bus driver had her arrested.
•Many historians date the origin of the U.S. civil rights movement to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
•Parks act of symbolic defiance is remembered today as one political valor that draw attention to racial injustice and led to the chain of events that eventually change the nation forever.