From the page: "December 1, 1955 a seamstress by the name of Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the front section of the municipal bus in Montgomery Alabama for a white passenger. She defied a southern custom common at the time and became a hero of the civil rights movement. This case was spearheaded by a young man named Martin Luther King, Jr. the newly elected President of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)." - Teeg