Rosa Parks
Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist, called by Congress "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement." In Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the "colored" section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Her act of defiance and the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott became important and enduring symbols of the Civil Rights movement.
