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A baby named Rosa Parks was born
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Rosa Parks marries Raymond Parks
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She had to quit school but she returned later to Alabama State Teachers College to finish her education.
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On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.
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Refusing to Give Up Her Bus Seat
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Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1960-2000).
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Parks died of natural causes on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, in her apartment on the east side of Detroit. She and her husband never had children and she outlived her only sibling. She was survived by her sister-in-law (Raymond's sister), residents of Michigan.
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President Barack Obama applauds after unveiling a statue of Rosa Parks during an unveiling in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2013, in Washington.
