Rosa parks childrens biography jackie robinson

Civil Rights activist

Grew Up Amid Racism

Refused to Give Up Seat on Bus

Inspired Bus Boycott

Founded Institute in Detroit

Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor

Story Made Into TV Movie

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According to the old saying, “some people are born to greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Greatness was certainly thrust upon Rosa Parks, but the modest former seamstress has found herself equal to the challenge.

Known today as “the mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Parks almost singlehandedly set in motion a veritable revolution in the southern United States, a revolution that would eventually secure equal treatment under the law for all black Americans.

“For those who lived through the unsettling 1950s and 1960s and joined the civil rights struggle, the soft-spoken Rosa Parks was more, much more than the woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a White man in Montgomery, Alabama,” wrote Richette