Question

One defiant act of Rosa Parks, An African-American woman, started the _________.
A. Civil Rights Movement
B. Suffrage Movement
C. Chipko Movement
D. None of these

Answer 1

Hint: The decision in the case of Rosa Parks was declared in 1956. The practice of segregation by federal Montgomery bus lawsuit declared unconstitutional under clause 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. Rosa Parks was also active in the Black Power Movement and the support of political prisoners in the US.

Complete step-by-step solution:
Civil rights are entitled to every person in a country. It’s a right that ensures the participation of a person in social affairs. The civil rights movement in the USA was started for enforcing the Civil Rights of African-Americans. Rosa Parks was an American Civil rights activist. She is famously known for the Montgomery bus boycott. One night she was returning home from work by bus. On the bus, she was asked to leave her seat for a white person. She refused to do so and this act of Rosa Parks sparked the fire of the movement which later became the Civil Rights Movement for African-Americans. She influenced the whole black community and they boycotted the Montgomery buses for over a year. She is considered as the first Lady of the civil rights movement by the Americans. Her case was dragged into the state court where the bus segregation of seats was declared unconstitutional by the court.
Her act on the bus became important symbols of the civil rights movement. She also became an international icon of racial segregation.

Thus, option (A) is correct.

Note: Rosa Parks received the 1979 Spingarn Medal and the Presidential Medal of freedom. Upon her death in 2005 she was the first woman to lie in honor in the capital Rotunda.