Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, better known as Rosa Parks, was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama (United States), and passed away on October 24, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan. She was an African-American woman and an iconic figure in the fight against racial segregation in the United States, who was called the “mother of the civil rights movement” by the U.S. Congress.

At the age of 42, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus. She was arrested by the police and fined 15 dollars.

Reverend Martin Luther King then launched a protest campaign and a boycott against the bus company that lasted 380 days.
On November 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bus segregation laws and declared them unconstitutional.

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