Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist. She was born as Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is very known for refusing to give a white man her seat on a bus, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. Her childhood brought her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. Through out Rosa's education, she attended segregated schools in Montgomery. Although she had become a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks suffered hardship in the months following her arrest in Montgomery and the subsequent boycott. She lost her department store job and her husband was fired after his boss forbade him to talk about his wife or their legal case. Rosa Parks did not stay seated on the bus because she was physically tired, she stayed seated because she was tired of being pushed around. She was tired of all of the segregation and racism she had grown up with. She finally had enough of being treated as a second-class citizen. She was arrested because she violated the segregation laws. These laws declared that African-Americans had to be separated from the whites. They made the whites seem superior from the African-Americans.
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