Rosa Louise Park (1913-2005)
Rosa
Parks was a seamstress who dared to break the city’s segregation law in Alabama
by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her action resulted in her
being arrested and fined but it was the catalyst for a civil disobedience
movement for civil rights in the USA that went down in history. Rosa Parks was
a militant member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) and she fought together with Martin Luther King Jr. until
segregation was declared unconstitutional.
