10 Women to Consider for the $20 Bill
3. Rosa Parks
While she may not have been the first person to challenge the so-called “separate but equal” Jim Crow laws in the deep South, Rosa Parks became known nationwide as “the mother of the freedom movement” when she refused to move to the back of the bus to make room for a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Parks’s defiant act and the subsequent Montgomery bus boycott, became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights movement. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town at the time of her act of civil disobedience. Eventually, she became an international icon in her own right for resistance to racial segregation.
Rosa Parks helped to make America more equal and just, and she has to take her rightful place as one of the main candidates for the new $20 bill.
