Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks (1913-2005), full name Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, was a US civil rights activist. She is regarded as 'Mother of the Civil Rights Movement'. She is known for starting Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to move to back of bus. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

Wisdom & Quotes

• All I was trying to do was get home from work.

- explaining how her refusal to sit in the back of a bus in 1955 led to the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott

• It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

Albert Camus