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Rosa Parks - Wikipedia
17 Apr 2024 at 2:03pm
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".

Rosa Parks: Bus Boycott, Civil Rights & Facts | HISTORY
17 Apr 2024 at 7:15am
Rosa Parks (1913?2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions...

Rosa Parks | Biography, Accomplishments, Quotes, Family, & Facts
17 Apr 2024 at 12:15pm
Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.?died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955?56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.

Rosa Parks: Biography, Civil Rights Activist, Bus Boycott
16 Apr 2024 at 8:23pm
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 bravery...

Biography: Rosa Parks - National Women's History Museum
17 Apr 2024 at 7:08am
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.

Montgomery Bus Boycott - Facts, Significance & Rosa Parks - HISTORY
17 Apr 2024 at 10:14am
Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.

BIOGRAPHY | Rosa Parks
15 Apr 2024 at 1:08pm
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.

Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Birth of the Civil ...
17 Apr 2024 at 6:03am
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and civil rights activist living in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested for refusing to obey a bus driver who had ordered her and three other African American passengers to vacate their seats to make room for a white passenger who had just boarded.

Rosa Parks | NAACP
16 Apr 2024 at 7:12pm
Rosa Parks | NAACP. Civil Rights Leaders. Rosa Parks occupies an iconic status in the civil rights movement after she refused to vacate a seat on a bus in favor of a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.

Rosa Parks | Academy of Achievement
13 Apr 2024 at 8:10am
February 4, 1913. Date of Death. October 24, 2005. Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.



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