![]() With no way to make ends meet, the Parks had no choice but to leave Montgomery in hopes of finding a fresh start. Her decision had a huge impact on civil rights, eventually leading to the end of segregation on public transport. In 1955, Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks had volunteered for them for years, but still, they wouldn't hire her. Rosa Parks grew up during segregation in Alabama, but she was taught to respect herself and stand up for her rights. And after that, no one wanted to hire either of them - she was too high-profile even for the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization that had coordinated the bus boycott. Rosa Parks' husband, too, quit his job as a Maxwell Air Force Base barber after being told that he couldn't mention his wife. People just stopped speaking to her until she was let go." ![]() ![]() If you were doing anything for change, you were an outcast. According to her niece, Urana McCauley, "She was disheartened that her black coworkers did not want to speak to her. In the year after her arrest, History says that her outspoken activism led to very rapidly deteriorating relationships with her coworkers, which turned into fights and finally, Parks lost her job at the Montgomery Fair department store. ![]()
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