Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

It said a black person needed special permission to work at any job except farming.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

For example, the state legislature in Mississippi said no black person could rent farmland.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Mississippi also passed a law saying a black person could be forced to work for a white man usually his former owner if he had no other job.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

She soon began making movies. Lena Horne said that she was able to make movies because she was the kind of black person that white people could accept.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

"We felt like no matter how non-violent you were, unless you had a law on the books or a decree by a court, that the same restaurant that could open up its door to a black person on Monday could close it on Tuesday if there were no law demanding it be kept open."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

However,black people sitting in that part of the bus were expected to leave their seats if a white person wanted to sit there.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The bus driver demanded that all four black people leave their seats so the white person would not have to sit next to any of them.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Rosa Parks and three other black people were seated in the middle area of the bus when a white person got on the bus and wanted a seat.

VOA: special.2009.03.08