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Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist (1913–2005)
For other uses, see Rosa Parks (disambiguation).
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1]
Parks became an NAACP activist in 1943, participating in several high-profile civil rights campaigns.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a white female passenger who had complained to the driver, once the "white" section was filled.[2] Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation,[3] but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for s