<P> On December 1 , 1955 , in Montgomery , Alabama , Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake 's order to relinquish her seat in the `` colored section '' to a white passenger , after the whites - only section was filled . Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation , but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws . Parks ' prominence in the community and her willingness to become a controversial figure inspired the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year , the first major direct action campaign of the post-war civil rights movement . Her case became bogged down in the state courts , but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle succeeded in November 1956 . </P>
<P> On December 1 , 1955 , in Montgomery , Alabama , Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake 's order to relinquish her seat in the `` colored section '' to a white passenger , after the whites - only section was filled . Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation , but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws . Parks ' prominence in the community and her willingness to become a controversial figure inspired the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year , the first major direct action campaign of the post-war civil rights movement . Her case became bogged down in the state courts , but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle succeeded in November 1956 . </P>
who refused to move to the back of the bus
who refused to move to the back of the bus
Parks
Parks