A World in Pictures: Jania Stevenson

 During the Civil Rights Movement, many African Americans did a lot of different things to fight for their equal rights. In this picture you can see Rosa Parks being finger printed after her arrest on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. She refused to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger after the white section had been filled up. She wasn't the first person to resist segregation, but her resistance to give up her seat became one of the starting events of the civil rights movement. Soon after her arrest, the Montgomery bus boycott, which became another key event during the civil rights movement, began. African Americans were refusing to ride the bus until a change was made. Thanks to Rosa Parks, the Supreme Court made the segregation of buses in Alabama unconstitutional. Due to everything Rosa Parks did years ago, she has now been deemed the "first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Rosa Parks along with her picture sparked a movement that would change America forever.