The film is about the life of Civil Rights social activist Rosa Parks. The film explores Rosa Parks' life from her childhood to the historic moment when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. At the age of 11, she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school where little girls were thought how to dress up a dinner …
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…refused. She was finally arrested and fined for violating a city law. The bus incident led to the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association by Martin Luther King Jr. The boycott of the Montgomery bus line for 381 days finally resulted in a ruling of the 1956 Supreme Court declaring that segregation was now illegal on city buses. Moreover, Rosa Parks' quiet and courageous act eventually led the way to the end of legal segregation in America.