Rosa+Parks+-+The+Bus+Boycott



Rosa Parks has done many great things in her life, one of them is starting the Mountgomery bus boycott. Every time she rode the bus it took some faith out of her. A young child would run on the bus before thier mother and sit down in the front of the bus. Their mother would pull them out of the seat and take them to the back before the bus driver yelled at them. Her act was not the first of its kind, Irene Morgan, in 1946 and Sarah Louise Keys 1955 had won rulings over the Supreme Court and the Inerstate Commerce Commission. respectivly in inerstate bus travel.(see events leading up to boycott by Ben.) But unlike these previous induvisual actons of disobedence this action sparked the Mountgomery bus boycott. Parks act of defience became an important symbol of modern civil rights movement. Parks becam an icon of power over racial segragation. She helped the boycott leader, Martin Luther King, to launch him to national prominces. Sadly Rosa Parks died October 24 2005. We all remember her for what she did for the United States of America.