What did Rosa Parks say or do?

Answer 1

The most prominent act by Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is not what she said, but what she did, on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery Alabama. In protest against the racial segregation laws aboard city buses, she refused to give up her seat so that a white person could sit down. The law allowed bus drivers to determine white and colored areas of the bus. Her arrest mirrored that of Claudette Colvin, 15, earlier that year. It was the impetus for a year-long bus boycott and an eventual Supreme Court ruling on integration.

Answer 2

Rosa Parks is remembered for her pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. She famously refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Her act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became an important symbol of resistance against racial segregation.