01/03/2026
/ Rosa Parks /
"Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated."
"Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Parks became a NAACP activist in 1943, participating in several high profile civil rights campaigns. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a White passenger, once the "White" section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, and she helped inspire the Black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year."
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Born: Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.
Died: October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Resting place: Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit
Occupation: Civil rights activist
Known for: Montgomery bus boycott
Movement: Civil Rights Movement