How Did Rosa Parks Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

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On December 5, 1955 a black woman named Rosa Parks would not give up her seat to a white passenger. She was arrested and sent to jail. After that happened, it sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Ever since the bus boycott happened it angered thousands of African Americans. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. The Montgomery City Code required that all public transportation be segregated and that bus drivers had the "powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions" of the code.
Rosa Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement, whom the United States Congress called, “the first lady of civil rights.” and “the mother of the freedom movement.” Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery Boycott and other efforts to end segregation. Rosa didn’t think any segregation law angered black people in Montgomery more than the bus segregation. During that time Rosa had to follow laws and segregation. For Rosa however, protests meant more than walking or taunting a white person.
Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Though the city's bus ordinance did give drivers the authority to
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It became a seminal event in the civil rights movement. African Americans wanted to end segregation. The Supreme Court got involved in Rosa Parks case. Would not even segregation, angered even more. Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, the ten front seats were reserved for whites at all times. The ten back seats were supposed to be reserved for blacks at all times. The middle section of the bus consisted of sixteen unreserved seats for whites and blacks on a segregated basis. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the