In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was
jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white
man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws.

The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young
Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s
historic act.  

The Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)