Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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