Registered at birth as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, she was an important figure in the civil rights movement in the United States

Born Rosa Louise McCauley Parks on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, daughter of a marriage formed by the carpenter James McCauley and the teacher Leona Edwards. He was of African, Native American, Scottish, and Irish descent.

INCIDENT ON THE BUS

Rosa was 42 years old when on December 1, 1955, she took a public transport to return home, specifically a bus. At that time, the vehicles were marked with a line: the whites in front and the blacks behind. Thus, black people got on the bus, paid the driver, got out, and went back up through the back door.

Parks settled into the middle seats, which blacks could use if no white required. When that part was full, the driver ordered him, along with three other blacks, to give up their places to a young white man who had just gotten up. "He hadn't even asked for the seat," Parks later said in an interview with the BBC. The others got up, but she remained motionless.

    

In response to Rosa's incarceration, Martin Luther King, a relatively unknown Baptist pastor at the time, led the protest to Montgomery's public buses, also assisted by Rosa Parks activist and childhood friend Johnnie Carr, and that simply called on the Afro-American population to organize themselves to transport themselves and not take the buses.

As the buses ended up receiving few or no passengers, they began to give deficits, making it necessary for the public transport authority to end the practice of racial segregation on buses. This event started more protests against other segregation practices still in force.