Rosa Park was on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the bus driver told her to stand to give up her seat to a white man. She refused, which led to her arrest but at the same time sparked major human rights protests across the US.
She was born in 1913 and attended a school for colored children. When she was 17 she had to leave school to care for her sick grandmother.
She became a member of the African-American community.
In 1955 in Alabama there were segregation laws between whites and people of color. In the front of the buses only white people were allowed and only colored people sat in the back.
She passed away in 2005.
[Source: http://www.marieclaire.com.au]
