Rosa Park sitting in her iconic spot at the front of the bus one year after her arrest on December 21 1956. Behind Parks is UPI reporter Nicholas C. Chriss. At the time of this photograph, Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated—thanks largely in part to her.
Rosa Parks , née Rosa Louise McCauley, (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan), African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. civil rights movement.
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