 African-American women in the civil rights movement were pivotal to its success.They volunteered as activists, advocates, educators, clerics, writers, spiritual guides, caretakers and politicians for the civil rights movement; leading and participating in organizations that contributed to the cause of civil rights.Rosa Parks's refusal to sit at the back of a public bus resulted in the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the eventual desegregation of interstate travel in the United States.