# Rosa Parks

> She stayed seated on a Montgomery bus in 1955 and set off a 381-day boycott that helped dismantle Jim Crow transit law. The refusal wasn't spontaneous - she'd spent years as NAACP secretary investigating racial violence and watching for the right test case.

*Civil rights activist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/rosa-parks

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1913-02-04
- **Died:** 2005-10-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born in Tuskegee in 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks grew up under Jim Crow and moved to Montgomery, where she joined the NAACP in 1943 as secretary. She registered to vote after three attempts and quietly built the scaffolding for civil rights campaigns, investigating cases of racial and sexual violence. When she refused to give up her seat on December 1, 1955, local leaders saw the test case they needed; the Women's Political Council called a one-day boycott that stretched to 381 days, ending only after Browder v. Gayle struck down bus segregation. The victory cost her: harassment, job loss, health trouble. She moved to Detroit in 1957 and kept working - supporting Angela Davis, protesting apartheid, co-founding an institute for youth development. She died in 2005 and became the first Black American honored in the Capitol rotunda and later in National Statuary Hall.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 77.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 12.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 29.0 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 32.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663005/ (@nm0663005)
- **WEBSITE**: http://montgomery.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/

## Topics
#Activists, #Comedian, #Stand Up, #Activism, #United States, #Americas, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2008** - Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
- **2005** - Died
- **2000** - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
- **1996** - Presidential Medal of Freedom
- **1995** - Golden Plate Award
- **1993** - National Women's Hall of Fame
- **1984** - Candace Award
- **1981** - Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
- **1979** - Spingarn Medal
- **1913** - Born

## Sources
- [Паркс, Роза](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0)
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- [羅莎·帕克斯](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%85%E8%8E%8E%C2%B7%E5%B8%95%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Rosa%20Parks)
- [Роза Паркс](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%81)
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- [روزا باركس](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3)
- [Роза Паркс](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%81)
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- [Rosa Parksová](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parksov%C3%A1)
- [ڕۆزا پارکس](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%86%D8%B2%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B3)
- [Roza Parks](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Parks)
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- [Ρόζα Παρκς](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%8C%CE%B6%CE%B1_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BA%CF%82)
- [Wikiquote](https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks)
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- [Rosa Parks](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks)

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