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1950's South By: Ariah Luevano Rosa Parks is known for starting the Civil Rights Movement on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a city bus and was arrested. Writers say “her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America” (Dove). Because Rosa Parks did not give up her seat to a white passenger she was put in jail for many days. Her protest made America what it is today. She was a part of the NAACP to help her promote change. Martin Luther King Jr. also helped Rosa Parks in the movement. Rosa Parks did a lot to get the south back together.

Dove, Rita. "Rosa Parks." //Times.// Times, 14 June 1999. Web. 30 December 2009.