Rosa Parks: A Symbol Of The Civil Rights Movement

The boycott of the Montgomery buses succeed because it was one of the first, large organized events that began the civil rights movement. Although Rosa Parks is remembered as the woman who refused to give her seat to a white man, she played a small role in this larger movement. The movement involved peoples such as African Americans, organizations, and even whites as well. Without the unity of African Americans and the group of white males and females who supported this movement, the rights that we have today would have never existed.
Although Rosa Parks became a symbol of the movement, the beginning of the boycott occurred long before her arrest. Jo Ann Robinson, president of the Women's Political Council, had written a letter to Mayor