Today In Black History: Happy Birthday Rosa Parks! [[VIDEO]]
DEARBORN, MI, - FEBRUARY 4: U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) applauds during the unvieling of the Rosa Parks commemorative stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service February 4, 2013 at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. The stamp went on sale February 4, 2013, what would have been Rosa Park's 100th birthday. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher.
December 1, 1955 marked the day most history books say started the civil rights movement when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. That woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance. This act of defiance however, began a movement that ended legal segregation in America, and catapulted this quiet spirit into a Civil Rights icon. (Source: achievement.org)
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