Rosa Parks was very famous for standing up for her rights. She became an icon of the black civil rights just by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. She was an African American living in Montgomery Alabama. In 1995 on December 1st she was heading home from work she rode a public bus. When a white man told her to give him her seat she said no and did not get up. After those many people started to boycott the public trains. This was out up by Martin Luther King Jr. himself. After these turn of events is was successful and led to derogation in autonomy and the rest of the united states. Unto this making Rosa Parks a national icon in The US. But before all of this Rosa parks was no stranger she was elected secretary of Montgomery.
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