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Rosa Parks is one of the many people to protest racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement to help provide blacks with equal rights. Parks is an African-American civil rights activist who is best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. Parks triggered the boycott after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus. This was considered to be the impetus of the Civil …

…could prevail even if it seems like the system is against them. Without this movement there would probably be no civil rights movement or black activism movement that took place in the 1960's and 1970's. Blacks needed a force that would help them strengthen, mobilize, organize, and learn to love and the Montgomery bus boycott proved to be a means for all of those things, and Rosa Parks was the “force” that all African-Americans needed.