Parks' prominence in the community and her willingness to become a controversial figure inspired the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year

Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement.

Shortly after the boycott, she moved to Detroit

Parks wrote her autobiography and continued to insist that the struggle for justice was not over

Rosa Parks died in 2005

King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott

later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

he then led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia

King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance

he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches