The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

As a young woman, Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to live with her husband, Raymond Parks. Raymond was a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...

Her parents separated when she was very young. She grew up with her ... facilities for white people were always better. Rosa McCauley became Rosa Parks when she married Raymond Parks in 1932.

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her ... an adviser to the organization’s youth council, where she helped young Black people to register to vote. Three Black riders gave up their ...

This week, we’ll discuss civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in 1913 in a small city in Alabama, a state in America’s Deep South. The region has a long history of ...