Rosa Parks / Hull, Mary

Profiles the civil rights leader famous for her refusal to give up a seat on the bus, which led to her arrest and the eventual overturning of the "Jim Crow" laws in the South by order of the Supreme Court.

Presents a biography of Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in December 1955 launching the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Montgomery bus boycott that lasted three hundred eighty-one days.

Tells the life story of activist Rosa Parks, describing her childhood in segregated Alabama and her work in the civil rights movement, including her historic refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus and her involvement in the Montgomery bus boycotts.