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Born in Tuskegee, Alabama by her father James (carpenter), and her mother Leona. Rosa Louise McCauley is her maiden name.
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In December 1943, Parks became active in the Civil Rights Movement, joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was elected volunteer secretary to its president, Edgar Nixon.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. https://worldhistoryproject.org/1955/12/1/montgomery-bus-boycott
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The ensuing struggle lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956 when a federal ruling took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. https://worldhistoryproject.org/1955/12/1/montgomery-bus-boycott
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After her arrest, Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement but suffered hardships as a result. https://worldhistoryproject.org/1965/rosa-parks-hired-as-a-secretary-to-us-representative-john-conyers
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In 1979, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Parks the Spingarn Medal,[41] its highest honor,[42] and she received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award the next year. https://worldhistoryproject.org/1979/naacp-awards-rosa-parks-the-spingarn-medal
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In 1996, Rosa Parks was presented, by President Bill Clinton, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a civilian by the United States Government. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao5-ADjeB5o
