What is Rosa Parks' most significant event?

Question

Please be specific like say dates and stuff.

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Answer 1

The general consensus is that her most significant event is her famous refusal to move to the back of the bus"

"On December 1, 1955, Parks became famous for refusing to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. This action of civil disobedience started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which is one of the largest movements against racial segregation. In addition, this launched Martin Luther King, Jr., who was involved with the boycott, to prominence in the civil rights movement."

As you can see it was a simple action, a simple choice to stand up for herself, that helped start the civil rights movement.

Answer 2

~Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in U.S.A.~

**On February 4, 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, the elder of Leona and James McCauley's two children. Although the McCauleys were farmers, Mr. McCauley also worked as a carpenter and Mrs. McCauley as a teacher.

Rosa McCauley attended rural schools until she was 11 years old, then Miss White's School for Girls in Montgomery, Alabama.  She attended high school at the Alabama State Teachers College, but dropped out to care for her ailing grandmother. It was not until she was 21 that she earned a high school diploma.

**Between 1943 and December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks had a firm and quiet strength to change things that were unjust.  She served as secretary of the Montgomery, Alabama NAACP and later Adviser to the NAACP Youth Council.  She tried to register to vote on several occasions when it was still nearly impossible to do so. She had run-ins with bus drivers and was evicted from buses.

****December 1, 1955:  Many historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955.  That was the day when Rosa Parks, a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This brave woman was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere.

The incident on December 1, 1955, led to the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association, and the emergence of the young pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   The association called for a boycott of the city-owned bus company. The boycott lasted 382 days and brought Mrs. Parks, Dr. King, and their cause to the attention of the world.

**On November 13, 1956, in "Browder v. Gayle," the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation on buses.

**On December 21, 1956, Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated by the U.S. Supreme Court decision.  The decision struck down the Montgomery ordinance under which Mrs. Parks had been fined, and outlawed racial segregation on public transportation.

**In 1957, Mrs. Parks and her husband Raymond Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan.  They struggled financially.  In 1963, she worked for the election of John Conyers to the U.S. House of Representatives.  He won the seat, a seat that he holds to this day; and she became a member of his original congressional staff.  She served in that position until 1987.  

**In 1987, Rosa Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, a career counseling center for black youth.

**Rosa Parks received many awards and tributes for her steadfast work for civil rights and equal opportunity and her dedication to non-violence.  

*In 1970, she was awarded the NAACP's highest honor, the Spingarn Medal.  

*In 1980, her work was recognized when she was awarded the prestigious Martin Luther King, Jr. Award.  

*In 1996, U.S. president Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that the U.S. government can give to a civilian.

*On April 22, 1998, she attended the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Troy State University Montgomery Rosa Parks Library and Museum to be located on the spot she was arrested. On December 1, 2000, she once again came to Montomery to participate in the grand opening of the Rosa Parks Library and Museum, dedicated in her honor.

**On October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, Rosa Parks died.  She left an impact not just on the nation, but on the world.  

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