The individual known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" is Rosa Parks.

Her crucial demonstration of insubordination on December 1, 1955, when she would not surrender her seat to a white traveler on a Montgomery transport, started the Montgomery Transport Blacklist. The struggle against racial discrimination and segregation adopted this courageous stand as a symbol. Parks' activities propelled endless others and assumed an essential part in preparing the social equality development, prompting critical social and official changes in the US.