- Rosa Parks | Biography, Accomplishments, Quotes, Family . . .
Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights movement ’
- Rosa Parks - Wikipedia
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American civil rights activist She is best known for her refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama , in defiance of Jim Crow laws , which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott
- Rosa Parks: Biography, Civil Rights Activist, Bus Boycott
Born in February 1913, Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in 1955 led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott Her
- Biography: Rosa Parks - National Womens History Museum
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott Find out more about her at womenshistory org
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- Rosa Parks - NAACP
California, Missouri, Ohio, and Oregon commemorate Rosa Parks Day every year, and highways in Missouri, Michigan, and Pennsylvania bear her name Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon when she refused to leave her bus seat for a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955
- Rosa Parks - U. S. National Park Service
Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens
- BIOGRAPHY - Rosa Parks
ROSA LOUISE PARKS BIOGRAPHY Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States
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