Maite Solé

ROSA PARKS

BIOGRAPHY

Rose Louise McCauley, known as Rosa Parks, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama (USA), on February 4 1933. She died on October 24 2005 in Detroit, Michigan (USA). Rosa Parks was an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America.

She was an African-American woman. She grew up in a farm where she lived with her family and she was brought up in the Methodist religion. Rosa worked as a weaver. She married Raymon Parks in 1932, so Rosa changed her last name into Parks.

Mrs Parks became famous because she refused to give up her seat and to move to the back of the bus. The most important thing was her rebellion, the principle of equality between black people and white people. She was imprisoned because of her activism. 

Rosa Parks is frequently cited as the spark of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America.

I admire her because she was a brave woman.