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".
- Occupation
- autobiographer, human rights defender, civil rights advocate, public figure
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 4, 1913
- Died
- October 24, 2005
- Website
- http://montgomery.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/
