In 1955, buses in montgomery Alabama were segregated. Seats in the front were for whites and the back seats was for African Americans. Blacks only had the option of sitting in the middle if there were few whites on the bus. An African American woman named Rosa Parks took a seat just behind the white section in the bus. She refused to give her seat to the white man that was standing. The bus driver then called the Montgomery police. Soon Park's decision sparked a new era in the civil rights movement, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other effort to end segregation. Parks was arrested in Montgomery for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws. Rosa Parks made her decision to challenge segregation in public transportation.
