Rosa+parks

﻿Rosa parks was awarded the congressional gold medal award in 1999. Rosa parks was a secretary of the montgomery branch of the naacp for 14 years. In december 1st,1955, Rosa parks boarded the cleveland avenue bus at approximently 6:00 PM.

She sat in the front seast where the white passengers where supposed to sit. Awhite male passenger enteredthe bus and told rosa parks to get out of his seat.But she refused to get out of the seat so the bus driver called the copes.

Martin luther king jr was the president of the montgomery association that was formed. The association managed legistics of a mass boycott of the city bus system that began in december 15,1955 the day of parks trial. Feburary,1956, parks was among 89 peopleindicated for there participation in the boycot.

Whitch in 1987,in part to honor the memory of her husband who died in 1977.