“Segregation” was a highly well known word in the United States around the early twentieth century. There was not a place you looked without seeing this act of racism. During this time, there was a few people that highly impacted the movement to equality of the races. Most of the riots and gatherings were held in Montgomery, Alabama. Many moments, acts, and laws were made because of mainly Rosa Parks, in Montgomery. Rosa Parks,one of the most famous of this time, was the leader of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Rosa was most famous for her arrest on December 1, 1955 for her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus for a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. This one act of a non violent protest upset
