Rosa Parks sits at the front of the bus after racial segregation ended
Nowadays, every child learns about Rosa Parks’ heroism in school. She played a crucial role in ending racial segregation in the U.S. by kickstarting the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1955, a bus driver demanded she give her seat to a white woman since the white section was already complete, but she refused.
Of course, she was arrested for civil disobedience. However, her defiance helped inspire the black community to boycott the Montgomery Bus Company. They kept it up for an entire year before a Federal Court finally ruled that segregation was unconstitutional in 1956.