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.

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?

Parks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and was the first woman to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol rotunda when she died in 2005. Some states already observe Rosa Parks Day as ...