Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man. She knew that she needed to let others know that she can have the seat just like a white person would have. This created a boycott in the town of Montgomery, Alabama where African Americans refused to ride the bus until they were given equal respect on the bus.

Rosa Parks is considered to be the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Giving opportunities for other African Americans to rise up and have a voice, because of the sacrifices that Rosa Parks went through there were more protests and movements created.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor from Atlanta, Georgia and he went around the nation to give his famous speeches. The most famous one being the "I Have A Dream" speech that spoke about the children of the future having a good life with no worries and he wanted them to have a better world unlike the one he was living in.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an influence to the public, he did have to find his ideas from somewhere though, his ideas were inspired by Mahatma Ghandi. He wanted other to join his movement and created the SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference .

This little girl is Ruby Bridges. She was the first African American student to enter a white school. There were people that did not like this idea and had their children leave the school. Ruby was isolated in one classroom to work with her teacher and was not able to play with the other students.