Rosa parks was an important figure in the movement.

She was most famous for the civil rights movement and went to jail for not moving to the back of the bus because she was black and a white person wanted her front spot in the front

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.