Rosa Parks is a African american that got arrested on the bus because she was a black person
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1] Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in both California and Ohio.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation.
Rosa Parks died on October 24,2005 aged 92,Detroit,Michigan.
Parks husband was Raymond Parks , 1932 - 1977 and her occupation was a Civil rights activist
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