The Neville Brothers "Sister Rosa"

Rosa Parks' civil protest, December 1, 1955

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, she was arrested and charged with violation of the then-segregation law. She became a civil rights hero, and was commemorated in a song by the Neville Brothers in 1989. (She also provided the namesake of an OutKast song that wasn't really about her and led to a lawsuit from her legacy-focused family.)