Rosa Parks is one of the many people to protest racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement to help provide blacks with equal rights. Parks is an African-American civil rights activist who is best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. Parks triggered the boycott after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus. This was considered to be the impetus of the Civil Rights Movement, as we recognize it today.
             Born Rosa McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Parks did not seem destined for fame as a young girl. Her mother was a teacher and her father, a carpenter. When she was still young she moved with her mother and brother to Pine Level, Alabama, to live with her grandparents. A hard-working family, they were able to provide her with the necessities of life but few luxuries while attempting to shield her from the harsh realities of racial segregation. She never had the intention of becoming a universal role model for all along with a very eloquent and strong-willed behavior.
             Parks was arrested for violating a city law requiring that whites and blacks sit in separate rows on buses. She refused to relinquish her seat in the middle of the bus when a white man wished to sit in her row. Mrs. Parks was tired after a long, exhausting and productive day of work. Nevertheless, she was also tired of the treatment she and other African-Americans acknowledged everyday of their lives, with the racism, segregation, and Jim Crow laws going on during that time period. "Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it." (Brockile 24) The African-American community immediately agreed to boycott the bus system, and three days later the boycott, which changed the way blacks were treated in Alabama, began. "It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white pe...