Rosa Parks It's been over four decades since the course of American history was changed when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This incident then set in motion a bus boycott that became a milestone in the civil rights movements conflicts of the 1950's and 1960's. Even though her place in history will never be forgotten, the heroic Rosa Parks proceeds to lead …showed first 75 words of 793 total…

…showed last 75 words of 793 total…one of the most successful, passive, resistance movements in modern history. She changed the civil rights movements in many ways; such as, starting the bus boycott, her work for the NAACP, the book she wrote, her work for her charity, hard work and protesting in her many silent protests. Because she is a reluctant public figure whose life has been shaped by practising what she preaches with integrity, caring and citizenship, people salute Rosa Parks.