Rosa Park
Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February
4 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama. Rosa Louise
McCauley Parks was an American activist
in the civil rights movement best known
for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
The United States Congress has called her the first
lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom
movement.After her parents James and Leona McCauley separated when Rosa was two Rosa’s mother moved the family
to Pine Level Alabama. The reason she was a
human rights hero was because she was arrested
for not giving her seat up for a light skinned person
on the bus but she stood up for her rights.
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