Question

What was the significance of rosa parks to the civil rights movement of the 1960?

Answer 1

She was significant because her actions brought national attention to the civil rights movement.

Answer 2

Rosa Parks was significant to the civil rights movement of 1960 because her actions brought national attention to the civil rights movement.

She was named "the mother of the civil rights movement," she strenghthen the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Consequently, her arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.