Civil+rights-Jose



Rosa Parks is one of the most know women in the civil right movement. on December 1,1955 she left her job as a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, and boarded a bus to go home, in 1955 buses in Montgomery reserved seats in the front for whites and seats in the rear for African Americans.in the middle were open to African Americans, but only if there were few whites on the bus.Rosa parks took a seat just behind the white section. soon, all of the seats on the bus were filled.when the bus driver noticed a white man standing, he told Parks and three other African Americans in her row to get up and let the white man sit down. The other Africans did but Rosa Park did not. the driver then caled the Motgomery police, who took Parks into custody.