Rosa Parks was an important black woman who wasn’t afraid to stand up for herself when she was treated unfairly. Her willingness to be arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person on a a bus sparked off a much larger protest which is still going on today. She was not the only person to feel as she did of course but her actions hit the headlines, bringing the unfairness to people’s attention and getting more people involved. She didn’t shout or make a fuss when the driver said he would have her arrested. She just stayed sitting. That took courage as well as determination to protest against discrimination.
