ainst segregation that used nonviolent tactics. Many people have said that Mrs. Parks was simply too tired to get up. This is not true. On that day, she made an important choice. She decided not to let white people treat her poorly. Mrs. Parks said, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." Rosa Parks's personal act of defiance opened a decisive chapter in the civil rights movement in the United States, which secured many advances for African-Americans in succeeding years.
             E.D. Nixon called a meeting for all African-Americans at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor. He and other African-American community leaders felt a protest of some kind was needed. A meeting was called and an ove
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