Rosa Parks is a civil right activist, she got arrested when she refused to give up her seat in a bus to a white person, in December 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama.

This courageous woman's act of defiance became the symbol for a whole movement and made her an international icon against segregation.

This simple yet powerful act cost her very dearly (she lost her job and received death threats) yet set in motion important changes that were soon to come in the United States.