Rosa Parks - Mighty TimesOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks took the bus home from work. In one of her books, she tells us what happened when she was told to give up her seat: One evening in early December, 1955, I was sitting in the front seat of the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The white people were sitting in the white section. More white people got on, and they filled up all the seats in the white section. When that happened, we black people were supposed to give up our seats to the whites. But I didn't move. The white driver said, "Let me have those front seats." I didn't get up. I was tired of giving in to white people. After Rosa Parks defied the law in Montgomery, Alabama - refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man - she was arrested, fingerprinted and convicted after a very short trial. Her actions effectively launched the modern-day civil rights movement.
Rosa Parks died, at the age of 92, on October 24, 2005. She was the first woman to lie in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building. A book released in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of her birth - February 4, 1913 - explores a lesser-known side of the civil-rights icon. It is called The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. This video clip is the trailer for the award-nominated "Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks." See, also: Video: Rosa Parks, Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement
Credits"Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks" Producers Released: 2002
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