Rosa Parks

              ROSA PARKS

Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and died of natural causes at her home in 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. She was 92. She was an African-American woman who served as a catalyst to the American Civil Rights Movement.

Parks was best known for her refusal to yield her seat to a white man, who demanded it on a city bus. Her defiance led to the Montgomery Bus Boicott in Alabama in 1955. 

she later worked on the staff of U.S. Representative John Conyers who called her "a Real Apostle of the non Violence Movement". She received the two highest civilian awards in the U.S.; the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional

Gold Medal in 1999. 

M. THATCHER