ROSA PARKS

In 1955, one black woman refused to give her seat to a white man on a bus. The woman was immediately put in prison. Her name was Rosa Parks...

Rosa lived in Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama, USA. She was a respected member of the black community. She worked as a seamstress in a depertment store and took the bus to work every day. Because she was black, she had to sit in a separate section at the back of the bus.