summary+of+rosa's+impact

Rosa Parks impact on history. One day, a simple act by one young woman helped set the wheels of the civil rights movement in motion. Although blacks have worked for their freedom and equality since they arrived in the United States, Rosa Parks's civil disobedience and arrest changed the focus of the movement, from solely relying on the courts to gain equality to rejecting and protesting their treatment in segregated states.media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=active&q=tuskegee+alabama&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Tuskegee,+Macon,+Alabama&gl=us&t=m&z=12&ll=32.430237,-85.707727&output=embed" width="425" height="350"media type="custom" key="12379044" width="150" height="150"