Rosa Parks interview (1995)

Rosa Parks, the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Check out these INSPIRING Rosa Parks books on Amazon Rosa Parks: My Story: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Rosa Parks: A Life: Join us on Patreon Share this video Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the bus system by blacks that lasted more than a year. The boycott raised an unknown clergyman named Martin Luther King, Jr. , to national prominence and resulted in the U. S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city buses. Over the next four decades, she helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights s