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Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was born in 1913 in Tuskagee, Alabama. In 1928 she graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. She attended Alabama State College in Montgomery. In 1932 she married. Rosa and her husband both worked with National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Rosa worked many different jobs; such as a housekeeper, insurance saleswoman and seamstress. On December 1, 1955 she got onto a bus and sat in one of the seats in the front. The bus driver ordered her to move to the back, where the “black people” were supposed to sit. She refused to move. According to the segregation laws, white passengers were given the seats in the front of the bus. Even if there were no white borders, the African Americans still had to sit in the back. If the bus was filled they would have to give up their seat. This was unfair, especially since everyone paid the same amount to use the bus. When Parks refused to get up, she was arrested and fined. Rosa let the NAACP fight her case in court. They argued that segregated seats deprived Rosa of her constitutional rights. At the same time, leaders asked Montgomery’s African Americans to boycott, parks, rosa, rights, bus, seats, same, people, boycott, believe, because, americans, african, worked, white, washington, sit, segregation, segregated, refused, naacp, move, honor, hero, front, everyone, didn’t, court, civil, buses, brave, back, alabama, act, wanted, very, until