“I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.”
“I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.”
The events triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks that was organized by a 26-year-old Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Parks was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to give up their seats for white passengers when the bus was full.
The Rosa Parks stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service honoring the civil rights icon on her 100th birthday.