Imagine riding a bus after a long day of work. You find a seat and sit down. Then someone tells you to stand up, just because of the color of your skin. That is what happened to Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. At that time, city buses had unfair rules called segregation laws. Black passengers had to sit in the back rows. If the white section filled up, Black riders had to give their seats to white riders. Rosa Parks was sitting in the middle section. When the bus driver told her to move, she refused. She was arrested and taken to jail. Her arrest made the Black community angry. Leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized a boycott of the city buses. Black residents walked, carpooled, or rode bikes instead of taking the bus. The boycott lasted 381 days, and the bus company lost so much money that the city finally changed its unjust laws. Rosa Parks, who did not plan to start a revolution that day, simply decided she had the right to keep her seat.