Rosa Parks

Known for

Acting

Gender

Female

Born

February 4, 1913

Age at death

92

Died

October 24, 2005

From

Tuskegee, Alabama, USA

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".