The protest that Rosa Parks ignited in 1957 was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This started because of her refusal to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white passenger.
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Answer: This is a very broad question, because many countries have very different governments.
Both the House and the Senate are made up out of the members from both the Democratic and the Republican Party. According to these statistics we can see that the minority in the House and the majority in the Senate are from the same political party as the President.