Rosa Parks

Biography

Rosa Parks was a trailblazing American civil rights activist whose courageous act on a Montgomery bus in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, galvanizing the movement for racial equality. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, she joined the NAACP in 1943 and successfully registered to vote despite Jim Crow disenfranchisement policies. Parks' steadfast commitment to justice paved the way for future civil rights campaigns, earning her the title "the mother of the freedom movement."