Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4,1913 and died on October 24,2005. She was an African American civil rights activist. The U.S. congress later called her "Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement". When she was 42 years old on December 1,1955 in Montgomery,Alabama. She refused to obey the bus driver to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her action was not the first of its kind.

Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat a 15 year old girl named Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on the same bus system. Rosa Parks act of defiance became an important symbol of the Modern Civil Rights Movment. She became an international icon of resistance ot racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders. Including boycotting with Martin Luther King Jr. Helping launching him to national prominecne in the civil rights movement.

Written By:Joselyne T.