The right answer is “Both the memoir and the poem are about Rosa Parks, but the poem talks more about her personal feelings.” Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement. She is known for her essential role in the Montgomery bus boycott. In December 1955, she disallowed bus driver James F. Blake's order to surrender her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was full. “On the Bus with Rosa Parks” is one of several sections in Dove’s book that gives voice to Rosa Parks. The use her, female voices in her poem can be outlined to Dove’s own life experiences, reflection of her own actions and emotions in times where black people were ignored, infringed upon and usually abused.
