On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. This act of defiance violated the city's racial segregation laws.
Parks' arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a significant event in the Civil Rights Movement. The boycott was led by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr. It lasted more than a year, during which African-Americans chose to walk rather than take the bus.
The boycott ended when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Despite the hardships she faced, including losing her job and receiving death threats, Parks' act of civil disobedience became a symbol of resistance against racial segregation.
