<human>:  Who was the first person to sit in the front of the bus?
<bot>: Rosa Parks was the first person to sit in the front of the bus. She was a black woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus to a white man in 1955. Her act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was one of the most successful and influential nonviolent actions of the civil rights movement.