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I think you're talking about Rosa Parks, and she didn't refuse to get off the bus, she refused to take a seat in the back of the bus which was designated for blacks.

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Rosa parks important to American history?

Rosa Parks was a very intelligent woman who was brave, had backbone< and stood her ground for the seat on the bus. She changed the world in a day. Her refusalto move out of that bus seat made us who we are today


When was civil rights activist Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.


Was Rosa Parks the first person to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus?

no


Did Rosa Parks stop the mistreatment of African Americans?

She helped with the first step by refusing to move her seat on an empty bus for a white man. This was the start of a year long bus boycott organized by a little known minister named Martin Luther King. With her bravery and arrest she changed the face of a nation.


What did Rosa Parks do after she changed history?

i think she change the world by gaving a white man her seat in the bus


Whose actions sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?

Rosa Parks was arrest for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person sparked the Montgomery bus boycott


What is one thing Rosa parks did that changed the world?

In 1955, Rosa Parks challenged the segregation by race on Montgomery's public buses, which was used to treat black citizens as inferior to white citizens. She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white rider. Following this, she became a symbol in the bus boycott that was used by the civil rights movement to further public pressure for an end to racial segregation. The bus law, and many similar laws in the South, were declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court, which also ruled against racial laws in education.


What caused the bus boycotts and what was the impact on civil rights?

A cause of the montgomery bus boycott was Rosa Parks refusing to move on the segregated buses and an effect was that buses became unsegregated


What do you call the man or woman who collects fares on bus?

whatv do you call the manor woman who collects fares on bus


Of Rosa Park's life an accomplishments?

Nothing other than refusing to give up her seat on a bus. I could've done that.


What was the date that Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white ma?

december 4th 1955


What Rosa Parks did that was heroic?

She defied the South's Jim Crow Laws, by refusing to give up her seat and sit in the back of the bus.