Rosa Parks is influential because of her ability to be defiant and stand up for what she believed in. For example, by Rosa Parks being defiant she helped to fuse many things. According to The article Rosa Parks defiance …show more content…
That event is when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. This certain event in her life was influential because it helped to put many things in motion here is an example of something she put in motion. “By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks (1913-2005) helped initiate the Civil Rights movement in the United states.” This was influential because by her doing this one thing she helped to change the law and also helped encourage others to stand up for what was right. Another example of her being influential is before she set the Civil Rights movement into motion she set something else in motion too. “ Her act of civil disobedients galvanized the African American community and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and it provided the foundation for the NAACP Vs.’’ This was influential because it made people who were afraid to stand up for what was right they did after they saw that she could do it. The final example of why that her on the bus saying no was influential is how she got someone who also helped to end segregation involved. “ The first day of the bus boycott was a great success, and that night the 26-year-old Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., told a large crowd gathered at a church, ‘’ The great glory of America democracy is the right to protest for right.” This was influential because she got someone involved after