25/02/19

Human right heroes

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley Parks on the 4 of February in Tuskegee, Alabama

USA. Rosa Parks is also known as ‘’ mother of civil rights movement ‘’ She is named that after

she invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a

white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1995. Rosa received numerous awards for her strength, courage and her work for civil rights. Rosa died of natural causes on 24 October 2005 at the

age of 92. But she continues to be recognized around the world.