Compléter Extraordinary People - Rosa ParksVersion en ligne Read about Rosa Parks. par Gisela Sosa 1 Civil community Rights 1955 American boycott crowded boarded segregation White African back row South arrested seat arrested 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 . "