

Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.Ī quick synopsis of the Rosa Parks legacy reveals that she was a feisty young girl who watched with increasing resolve how the division between the African Americans and white people manifested itself. No, Rosa Parks was not tired that day on when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. She worked tirelessly to further many causes ranging from pushing for voter registration, to supporting wrongfully accused black Americans, to addressing inequalities in schools and housing. During those 92 years she never waivered from her absolute commitment to civil rights activism. Rosa lived to the ripe old age of 92 and did not have any children of her own. Her mother was a teacher and her father a carpenter.


Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on in Tuskegee, Alabama and died on in Detroit, Michigan.
