Rosa Parks

Born: Feb. 4, 1913 in Alabama

Died: 2005

American civil rights activist who has been called “first lady of civil rights.”

Refused to obey a bus driver’s order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger in Montgomery, AL on Dec. 1, 1955.

Her important act of defiance & the Montgomery Bus Boycott became key symbols of the Civil Rights Movement.

Was an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”