# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rosa-parks
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:53.294Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.