Rosa Parks Biography

Rosa Parks was born on 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.

She attended Alabama State College.

Rosa Parks was a long-time member of the Montgomery, Ala., chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks boarded a bus, paid and sat down. Soon after when a white man boarded, Rosa Parks was required to give up her seat to him under the law, but she refused. She was then arrested. A massive boycott of the bus system followed, till eventually the US Supreme Court declares Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional.

Awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1970), the Martin Luther King Jr. Award (1980), and an honorary degree from Shaw College.

Rosa Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress's highest honor, in 1999.

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