Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was a black African American woman who was a civil rights activist. Rosa Parks was the “first lady of civil rights” she made a name for herself in history on the first of December 1955 while riding on the Montgomery Alabama bus. Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger who had no where to sit as the bus as it was full. Even though Rosa was sitting in the right colour section. On this day when Rosa refused to obey the Jim Crow Laws of segregation she sparked the Black Civil Rights Movement. Many experiences had happened in Rosas lifetime, which lead up to her making a stand on the bus. Her childhood experiences and growing up with the Jim Crow Laws. Experiences of racial discrimination as an adult, experiences working with the NAACP all of these are causes but this leads to personal consequences and historical results for example The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On December the first 1955 Rosa Parks a 42-year-old African American woman was arrested and convicted for violating the laws of segregation. So-called the “Jim Crow” laws. This major event in black civil rights history occurred when Rosa Parks boarded the Montgomery City bus to go home from a long and tiring day from work. She sat down just passed the first few mostly empty rows of seats marked “Whites Only.” The law is that any black person is allowed to sit in this section unless a white person is standing. Rosa Parks had never broken one segregation law until this day. Although she disliked the laws of segregation very much. The bus started to full up and the bus driver ordered the blacks to stand. Rosa Parks quietly refused. The bus driver started getting very angry and shouting at Rosa she sat there. Rosa sat in her seat till the police came and arrested her. She said to her followers “the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Rosa got named the “mother of the civil rights