Rosa Parks was a black woman, a seamstress by occupation, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The year was 1955, which marked the beginning of the end of legal segregation in the United States. Ms. Parks was arrested and fined, but her arrest led to the founding of the Montgomery Improvement Association led by Reverend Martin Luther King. As a result of her arrest, the Association announced a boycott of the city’s bus company that lasted for 382 days. The Supreme Court struck down the ordinance under which Ms. Parks was fined and outlawed segregation on public transportation.
Rosa Parks died October 24, 2005 at the age of 92. She was laid to rest in the Capitol Rotunda, the first woman to be so honored.
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