The Bus Ride That Changed It All When Rosa Parks set foot in that Montgomery city bus after a long day of working as a seamstress on December 1 of 1996, she didn’t expect her life, and others, to change forever. Back in the early to mid 1900’s, segregation played a big role in some people’s everyday lives. Rosa Parks’s family was partially the reason that she refused to give up her seat that day. Rosa Parks has earned many awards for her act of heroism. Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which sparked great interest in the Civil Rights Movement. When Rosa was a young, little girl, she knew how to stand up for herself and her siblings, which often got her in trouble. One day a young, white boy, about
