Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in... Wikipedia

  • Born:  Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.
  • Age at death:  92 years
  • Died:  October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
  • Resting place:  Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit
  • Education:  Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes (now Alabama State University)
  • Occupation:  Civil rights activist
  • Known for:  Montgomery bus boycott
  • Movement:  Civil Rights Movement
  • Spouse(s):  Raymond Parks, (m. 1932, died 1977)
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