Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist known as the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement." On December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

This act of defiance became a symbol of the civil rights movement.

Parks was secretary of the local NAACP chapter and collaborated with leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. She faced hardships for her actions but received numerous honors later in life.

Parks wrote an autobiography and lived in Detroit until her death in 2005, leaving a lasting legacy in the fight against racial segregation.