SCOTT #4742 COURAGE ROSA PARKS FOREVER STAMP

   Rosa Parks (1913-2005) became an inspiring, iconic figure of the civil rights movement with one quiet act of courage. On the evening of Thursday, December 1, 1955, after working all day, she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man. Discriminatory laws in effect at that time required black passengers to sit in the rear section of the bus and to surrender their seats to white passengers on demand.