The Black women activists who refused to give up their seats during the Civil Rights Movement in America

Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was the lead figure around whom the Montgomery bus boycott was conceived. In 1943, she became a member and later the Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights society formed in 1909 to fight for justice for African Americans. Parks participated in many laudable civil rights campaigns. On December 1, 1955, she was arrested in Montgomery for refusing the seat vacation order from James F. Blake, the driver of the public bus she boarded.

RELATED STORIES

These 5 affluent women are redefining business in Kenya

The rarely-told story of the Golden Fourteen, the first Black women to serve in the U.S. Navy

Meet the woman leading the first-ever Black-owned McDonald’s restaurant

6 facts about Joanna McClinton, who is now the first woman to ever be Pennsylvania House Speaker