Rosa Parks 1913–2005

Notes

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on 4 February 1913 and died on 24 October 2005. That longer name is the alias already on this Echo, and the years read 1913–2005. The summary names a civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. The public record places that refusal in 1955 and says it sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery is named because the summary already names it. She is sometimes called the mother of the civil rights movement, a phrase from the same public introduction, not a title conferred by this sheet. The National Archives holds a lesson built on her arrest records, linked below, which is why this note can say that an arrest followed the refusal without inventing a docket number. This note does not add a birthplace or a school. This research sheet is the page reached by rosaparks.si.

External reading:

• Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
• Rosa Parks — National Park Service
• Arrest records of Rosa Parks — National Archives