When Rosa Parks was a young woman, black people and white people could not sit together on the bus. White people sat in the front of the bus and black people had to sit in the back of the bus. This was unfair.

In December of 1955, Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on the bus to a white person. The bus driver had her arrested and she was put in jail.

Rosa Parks, along with other Americans, began fighting for equal rights for black people. They did not use the buses for one year. In 1966 the U.S. Supreme court changed the law so that black and white people had equal rights. Rosa Parks lived to the age of 92.