Not long ago it was legal to discriminate against black people in the United States. That’s when Rosa McCauley was growing up in Montgomery, Alabama. When Rosa was 11, she went into a store with her cousin, Annie Mae, who asked for a soda. The answer: “We don’t serve sodas to colored people.” This was legal, but Rosa knew it was wrong. Years later, in 1955, Rosa Parks (her married name) had a chance to act courageously on her convictions. By law, black people had to sit in the back of city buses and stand if a white person needed a seat. Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested. This led blacks to boycott, or not use, Montgomery buses until the unjust law was changed. Rosa Parks has been called the “mother of the civil rights movement.”

We asked kids what they could learn from Rosa Parks or if THEY had ever done something that took courage. HERE'S WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY.