- Born
- February 4, 1913
- Died
- October 24, 2005 (aged 92)
- Known as
- autobiographer, human rights defender, civil rights advocate, public figure, political activist
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".
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