Rosa Parks (USA)
Rosa Parks is a true icon of the civil rights movement. Born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, she became known as the "mother of the civil rights movement" for her courageous act of defiance on December 1, 1955. On that day, Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama1. Her arrest for violating segregation laws sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal event in the fight for racial equality.