For 2013, The United States Postal Services honors Rosa Parks with a Forever postage stamp. Parks refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus on December 1, 1955 sparked the start of the Civil Rights movement and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was arrested for her refusal and charged with convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as “Jim Crow laws.” Parks appealed this decision and stood by her beliefs that all men and women should be created equal.
This boycott was led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and will forever be a part of our Black History.
Rosa Parks passed away on October 24, 2005 and would have been 100 years on on February 4th.