Rosa Parks faced significant challenges that defined her pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. As a black woman in the segregated South, she experienced daily injustices and discrimination. Parks’ well-documented experiences of racial inequality and her work with the NAACP highlighted her commitment to civil rights. Her famous act of defiance on a Montgomery bus in 1955, refusing to give up her seat, became a catalyst for the movement. Parks endured harassment and threats but remained steadfast, becoming a symbol of courage and a key figure in the struggle for racial equality.