Moments in Black History: Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was born on February 4,1913. She died on October 24, 2005. Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks refused to obey the bus driver. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation. Rosa Parks was the secretary of the NAACP. She had recently attended the Highlander Folks School. Later in life, she moved to Detroit where she briefly found similar work.