Completar frases Extraordinary People - Rosa ParksVersión en línea Read about Rosa Parks. por Gisela Sosa 1 boarded American back African arrested community White crowded row segregation Rights Civil South seat arrested 1955 boycott Rosa Parks ( 1913 ? ) left work and a bus in Montgomery , Alabama , on a December evening in . In those days in Alabama , African Americans and white people were separated on buses . people sat in the front of the bus , and - people sat in the . On this particular evening , Parks sat in the front of the " colored " section . The bus became , and the bus driver told Parks to give her to a white passenger . But she refused . Parks was by the police . But she was a well - known woman in the and civil rights leader Dr . Martin Luther King Jr . heard what happened . He led a bus . Parks's actions helped to end in America's . It was the beginning of a new era of the movement . Rosa Parks did not plan her historic act . " I did not get on the bus to get , " she has said . " I got on the bus to go home . "