Rosa parks - Eloise Greenfield

Moment of TruthWhen Rosa Parks was growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, she hated the unfair rules that black people had to live by -- like drinking out of special water fountains and riding in the back of the bus.

Years later, Rosa Parks changed the lives of African American in Montgomery -- and all across America -- with one courageous act.

On a December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

She was arrested and put in jail.

But Rosa Parks fought back, along with many other African Americans.

After a long struggle, their heroic efforts launched the modern Civil Rights Movement.

How could one quiet, gentle woman have started it all? This is her story.