Rosa
Parks is known as the Mother of the Civil Rights
Movement. She was born February 4, 1913 in
Tuskeegee, Alabama.
In1955, Rosa instigated
the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, by
refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a
white passenger as required by city law. Although
secretary of the local branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
Parks acted alone.