The Rosa Parks Story is a 2002 American television movie written by Paris Qualles and directed by Julie Dash.

As a child, Rosa was educated at a private school run by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where she was encouraged to overcome the limits of segregation.

On December 1, 1955, after a tiring day at work, Rosa Parks took a seat in the designated "colored" section of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

With its success, they founded the Montgomery Improvement Association, and began a citywide bus boycott, led by a new local minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The boycott was important for mobilizing people in the civil rights movement both in the Deep South and on a nationwide basis across the United States.