Rosa Parks is a civil rights activist (1913-2005) who was born Rosa Louis McCauley on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa’s fame came from her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a public bus. Her action caused a public outcry and a city wide boycott which ultimately launched efforts to end segregation between races in public areas. Rosa Parks’ childhood is credited to her being able to refuse the white person the seat on the bus because while she was young her parents had divorced and her family had gone to live with her grandparents who were both former slaves that advocated for racial equality themselves. Rosa was also taught how to read at a young age by her mother and also attended a single room segregated
