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.