Rosa Parks, born on February 4, 1913, is one of the most famous women of the Civil Rights Movement.

     On December 1, 1955, she left work and boarded a bus home. The bus was crowded, and when a white man walked on the bus she was ordered to give up her seat. When she refused to give up her seat, she was arrested. "I felt I had the right to stay where I was," she said. "I wanted this particular driver to know that we were being treated unfairly as individuals and people."​

    Martin Luther King Jr. heard about her stand, he launched a Montgomery bus boycott. 17,000 black residents of Montgomery kept the boycott going for a year, until the Supreme Court declared segregation on buses as unconstitutional.

     After her stand on the bus, Rosa Parks became known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."

​      She died on October 24, 2005.