Rosa Parks was born on 4 February 1913 in Tuskegee. An American civil rights activist, Parks worked as a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, and was an active member of the local branch of the NAACP. On 1 December 1955 she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger, as the segregation rules required, and was arrested. Her act sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr., which lasted more than a year and ended after the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. She faced threats and job loss, moved to Detroit, and continued to work for civil rights. She is remembered as the mother of the civil rights movement and received the Congressional Gold Medal.
Before and after
- 1913Founding of Parma Calcio 1913
- 1913Ford introduces the moving assembly line
- 9 January 1913Birth of Richard Nixon
- 2 February 1913Construction of Grand Central Terminal
- 4 February 1913Birth of Rosa Parks
- 12 March 1913Founding of Canberra
- 30 May 1913Treaty of London
- from 29 June 1913 to 10 August 1913Second Balkan War
- 14 July 1913Birth of Gerald Ford
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The era
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