Rosa Parks was an iconic figure of the civil rights movement in the United States. She lived in Montgomery, Alabama and in 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, which led to her arrest. This event sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. and marked a major milestone in the fight against racial segregation in the United States.

1. Rosa Parks was a
symbolic person for the
black community and WHO ?
the racial segregation.
She lived in
Montgomery
(Alabama,U.S.A)
She was born in 1913
and died in 2005.
Rosa Parks
(1913-2005)

2. In 1955, in a bus, she sat on the seat of a white
passenger and refused to sede it.

3. Because of that she was
arrested by the police ,
and was fined 10$.She
reported an error on
this judgment.

4.  Followingthis evenement,a young pastor who
was called Martin Luther King (the symbolic
leader of American blacks but also a world
figure),sparked off a protestation.

5. Martin Luther King caused a
boycott of the bus in Alabama.
Every black american had
stopped taking the bus
anymore which caused a major
financial crisis.

6. This evenement made Rosa Parks the mother of the civil rights
movement from the U.S. Congress.