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2 dni temu · Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.
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25 paź 2005 · Rosa Parks, the black woman whose 1955 protest action in Alabama marked the start of the modern US civil rights movement, has died at the age of 92. His protest movement brought about the...
25 paź 2005 · Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the...
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement.
25 paź 2005 · DETROIT — Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern U.S. civil rights movement, has died at age 92. Mrs. Parks died Monday evening at her home...
Rosa Louise Parks, z domu McCauley (ur. 4 lutego 1913 w Tuskegee, zm. 24 października 2005 w Detroit) – afroamerykańska działaczka na rzecz praw człowieka. Jest uznawana za jeden z symboli walki z segregacją rasową, a także jest nazywana „matką ruchu praw obywatelskich ”.
After almost being evicted from her home, local community members and churches came together to support Parks. On October 24th, 2005, at the age of 92, she died of natural causes leaving behind a rich legacy of resistance against racial discrimination and injustice.
