The memorial is within walking distance of other historic sites including the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, the Alabama State Capitol, the Alabama Department of Archives and History and the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.

Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

* 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

* National Transit Tribute to Rosa Parks Day ( American Public Transportation Association )

* Rosa Parks Day ( United States ) ( see December 1 )

Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., working during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Many of their efforts were acts of non-violent civil disobedience aimed at disrupting the enforcement of racial segregation rules and laws, such as refusing to give up a seat in the black part of the bus to a white person ( Rosa Parks ), or holding sit-ins at all-white diners.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks ( February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005 ) was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U. S. Congress called " the first lady of civil rights ", and " the mother of the freedom movement ".

In 1999, a lawsuit was filed on her behalf against Outkast and LaFace Records due to their unauthorized use of her name in their 1998 song, " Rosa Parks ".

In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery.

On November 27, 1955, Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting in Montgomery that addressed this case as well as the recent murders of the activists George W. Lee and Lamar Smith.

In 1957, Raymond and Rosa Parks left Montgomery for Hampton, Virginia ; mostly because she was unable to find work.

Later that year, at the urging of her brother and sister-in-law in Detroit, Michigan, Sylvester and Daisy McCauley, Rosa and Raymond Parks, and her mother moved north to join them.

There was only one Rosa Parks.

She co-founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation for college-bound high school seniors, to which she donated most of her speaker fees.

In February 1987 she co-founded, with Elaine Eason Steele, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an institute that runs the " Pathways to Freedom " bus tours which introduce young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.

In 1992, Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography aimed at younger readers, which recounts her life details her life leading to her decision to keep her seat on the bus.

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Rosa, unbelievably, was not yet up and about, reassurance that Rosa was human.

Outside, the garden, the tame wilderness, yielded a patchwork bouquet of daisies, sweet william, scented stock and lady's bedstraw, which she tied with long grasses and took back to show Rosa, who was now stirring about the kitchen and haranguing Folly.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Ugo Rosa grew up and was later married in Kentucky.

Don Rosa was born Keno Don Hugo Rosa on June 29, 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Don's father was named Ugo Dante Rosa, but used the name " Hugo Don " Rosa in America.

Don Rosa was exposed to comics at a very young age, as his 11-years-older sister was a comics hoarder, and had thousands of comics for Don to look at and later read.

Rosa later switched the strip to comedy-adventure which was his favorite style of comics, and drew the story Lost in ( an alternative section of ) the Andes.

This was a question-and-answer feature dealing with readers ' queries on all forms of pop entertainment of which Rosa was a student, including comics, TV and movies ..

The pay was $ 25 / week and not worth the 12 + hours each week's strip entailed, but Rosa did it as part of his hobby.

Years later, as his fame grew, his non-Disney work was published by the Norwegian publisher Gazette Bok in 2001, in the two hard-cover " Don Rosa Archives " volumes, The Pertwillaby Papers and The Adventures of Captain Kentucky.

Son of the Sun was a success and Rosa ’ s very first professional comic story was nominated for a Harvey Award “ Best Story of the Year ”.

As Don Rosa explained it, he was just "(...) turning that old Pertwillaby Papers adventure back into the story it originally was in my head, starring Scrooge, Donald, the nephews, and Flintheart Glomgold.

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.

Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of Rosa Philippine ( née Blum ) and Ignatz Siodmak.

Though Don Rosa hasn't used him in his family tree or his timelines it has been purposed that he could be an illegitimate son of Fergus McDuck born somewhere between the death of Fergus ' wife on 1897 and Fergus ' own death on 1902.

* The modern rose is born, with the introduction of Rosa ' La France ' by Jean-Baptiste Guillot ( 1803 – 1882 ).

Truman was born in Ivydale, Clay County, West Virginia, to Newberry Truman and Rosa Belle Hardman ; the family settled in Chehalis, Washington several years later.

She was born Rebecca Jane Pearch on August 29, 1959, in Santa Rosa, California.

Rabin was born in Jerusalem on 1 March 1922, British Mandate of Palestine to Nehemiah and Rosa ( née Cohen ), two immigrants of the Third Aliyah, the third wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europe.

Yitzhak's mother, Rosa Cohen, was born in 1890 in Mohilev in Belarus.

Popularly known in Piedmontese as " Bela Rosin " ( Little Rosa the Beautiful ), she was born a commoner but made Countess of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda in 1858.

Loewe was born in Berlin, Germany, to Viennese parents Edmond and Rosa Loewe.

Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, ( 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899 ) was a French animalière, realist artist, and sculptor.

He was the youngest of four children born to Bartolomeo Durante and his mail-order bride Rosa, both of whom were immigrants from Salerno, Italy.

* Rosa Luxemburg ( born Rosalia Luxemburg ), a Polish-German Marxist revolutionary

* Rosa Parks, born in Tuskegee, African American civil rights activist.

* Archduchess Maria Luisa Giuseppa Cristina Rosa of Austria, born 30 August 1799 ;

Lys Assia ( born Rosa Mina Schärer, 3 March 1926, Rupperswil, Aargau, Switzerland ) is a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.

Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian father Wolf Albach-Retty and her German mother Magda Schneider.

Connie Francis ( born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero ; December 12, 1938 ) is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s.