Rosa Parks Coloring Page

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was riding a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, as the law then required. She was arrested. She worked as a seamstress and was already active in the NAACP, a civil rights group.

Black residents of Montgomery then stopped riding the city buses, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. It ended when the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Parks is often called the mother of the civil rights movement.