How Did Rosa Parks Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

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Rosa Louise Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights Movements, and was called the First Lady of the Civil Rights by the United States Congress, and also called the Mother of the Freedom Movement. Rosa Parks’s actions in Montgomery, Alabama sparked the Civil Rights Movement, and forever changed history for African Americans.
Rosa Parks, the daughter of Leona McCauley and James McCauley, was born on the 4th of February 1913 in Alabama. She moved with her parents to Pine Level at the age of two to reside with Leone's parents. She had a brother named Sylvester born in 1915. Shortly after her parents had Sylvester they both separated. The event for which Parks is best known was not her first time resisting the rules of segregation