The Most Influential People In History

Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in 1913 and she’s known as a civil right’s activist, and is considered to be the mother of Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement. She became famous after on December 1st 1955, when she refused to sit at the back of the bus and to give up her seat for a white man. She was arrested for her refusal, an event that caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was extremely successful and a huge step for civil rights.

Her act of refusal is inspiring to this very day and she’s still a symbol of resistance and of civil rights.