Rosa Parks was known 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 segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her act of defiance and the subsequent boycott were important moments in the fight against racial segregation and discrimination in the United States. Parks became a symbol of the civil rights movement and is often referred to as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
