ROSA PARKS

Rosa Parks was born in 1913, she was an African-American Civil Rights activist. On December 1,she refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. She attended the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee center for training activists for workers' rights and racial equality. She was also active in the Black Power movement and the support of political prisoners in the US.In her final years, she suffered from dementia.