Rosa Parks
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- Alabama Women's Hall of Fame - Biography of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
- Spartacus Educational - Biography of Rosa Parks
- Academy of Achievement - Rosa Parks
- Blackpast.org - Biography of Rosa Parks
- PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks
- The Henry Ford - Rosa Parks: What if I Don’t Move to the Back of the Bus?
- Encyclopedia of Alabama - Rosa Parks
Who was Rosa Parks?
Why is Rosa Parks important?
Was Rosa Parks the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus?
What did Rosa Parks write?
Rosa Parks, née Rosa Louise McCauley, (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan), 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. Born to parents James McCauley, a skilled stonemason and carpenter, and Leona Edwards McCauley, a teacher, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Louise McCauley spent much of her childhood and youth ill with chronic tonsillitis. When she was two years old, shortly after the birth of her younger ...(100 of 1297 words)