![]() She worked as a seamstress and in 1943 joined the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP).Īccording to a Montgomery city ordinance in 1955, African Americans were required to sit at the back of public buses and were also obligated to give up those seats to white riders if the front of the bus filled up. “The mother of the civil rights movement,” as Rosa Parks is known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913. ![]() Watch Rosa Parks: Mother of a Movement on HISTORY Vault ![]() The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s historic act of civil disobedience. ![]() In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws. ![]()
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