Biography​. January 15, 2020. Biography.com Editors. January 15, 2020.

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- Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley

- Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.

- Her parents, James and Leona McCauley, separated when Parks was two.

- Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on
a segregated bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

- Birth to death (February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005)

- After her famous act, Parks lost her job and endured death threats for years to come.

- In 1932, at age 19, Parks met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of
the NAACP.

- ​Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr.​ ​Award by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People

- Upon Parks' death in 2005, she became the first woman to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda.

- On December 1, 1955, Parks was arrested for refusing a bus driver's instructions to give up
her seat to a white passenger. She later recalled that her refusal wasn't because she was
physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in.

- In 1992, Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography recounting her life in the
segregated South.

- On October 24, 2005, Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 92.
She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia, which she had been
suffering from since at least 2002.

- Also in February 2013, President Barack Obama unveiled a statue designed by Robert Firmin
and sculpted by Eugene Daub honoring Parks in the nation's Capitol building. He remembered
Parks, according to​ The New York Times​, by saying "In a single moment, with the simplest of
gestures, she helped change America and change the world. . . . And today, she takes her
rightful place among those who shaped this nation’s course."
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- She was the spark that set off the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

- Mrs. Parks headed the Youth Division of the Montgomery NAACP branch for years.

- Contrary to the folkloric accounts of her civil rights role, Mrs. Parks was not too tired to move
from her seat. Rather, she had been a knowledgeable NAACP stalwart for many years and
gave the organization the incident it needed to move against segregation in the unreconstructed
heart of the Confederacy, Montgomery, AL.

US History​. 2008. Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia. 2019.

<​https://www.ushistory.org/us/54b.asp​>

- On a cold December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks quietly incited a revolution — by just sitting
down.

- She was tired after spending the day at work as a department store seamstress. She stepped
onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row — the first row of the "COLORED
SECTION."

- In Montgomery, Alabama, when a bus became full, the seats nearer the front were given to
white passengers.

- Montgomery bus driver James Blake ordered Parks and three other African Americans seated
nearby to move ("Move y'all, I want those two seats,") to the back of the bus. Three riders
complied; Parks did not​.

HISTORY​. 9 November 2009. History.com Editors. 13 December 2019.

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- On December 5, Parks was found guilty of violating segregation laws, given a suspended
sentence and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs.
- Her husband, brother, and mother all died of cancer between 1977 and 1979.

Rosa Parks Facts​. 1 June 2008. Ajay Moholtra.

<​http://rosaparksfacts.com/rosa-parks-early-life-childhood/​>

- Her father was employed as a carpenter and her mother as a teacher. In her younger years
she was sick much of the time, and as a result, was a small child.

Women’s History​. 2017. Arlisha Norwood.

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-​“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was
not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not
old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only
tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

- She was an active member of several organizations that worked to end inequality in the city.

- Parks married a local barber by the name of Raymond Parks when she was 19.

- Together the couple worked with many social justice organizations.