Rosa Parks

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African American civil rights activist human

Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, became a pivotal symbol of the struggle against racial segregation.

Aliases (3)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	African American → civil rights activist → human →
awardReceived	Congressional Gold Medal → Presidential Medal of Freedom → Spingarn Medal →
burialPlace	Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States →
causeOfDeath	natural causes →
commemoratedBy	Rosa Parks Day →
commemoratedIn	United States Capitol (statue in National Statuary Hall) →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
date	1955-12-01 →
dateOfBirth	1913-02-04 →
dateOfDeath	2005-10-24 →
educatedAt	Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes (did not complete) → Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery →
ethnicGroup	African Americans →
event	arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up bus seat →
familyName	McCauley → Parks →
fullName	Rosa Louise McCauley Parks →
gender	female →
givenName	Rosa →
hasWork	Quiet Strength → Rosa Parks: My Story →
heritage	African American →
honor	called “the mother of the civil rights movement” →
influenced	American civil rights legislation → Martin Luther King Jr. →
inspired	boycotts and protests against segregation across the United States →
knownFor	Montgomery bus boycott → refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger →
languageSpoken	English →
legalCase	Browder v. Gayle →
memberOf	NAACP →
movement	American civil rights movement →
notableEventLocation	Montgomery, Alabama, United States →
notableRole	symbol of resistance to racial segregation →
occupation	civil rights activist → seamstress →
participantIn	Montgomery bus boycott →
placeOfBirth	Tuskegee, Alabama, United States →
placeOfDeath	Detroit, Michigan, United States →
positionHeld	secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP →
religion	Methodism →
residence	Detroit, Michigan, United States → Montgomery, Alabama, United States →
spouse	Raymond Parks →

Referenced by (24)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
E. D. Nixon → Jo Ann Robinson →	collaboratedWith
Rosa Parks Day → U.S. Civil Rights Trail →	commemorates
Rosa Parks Day → Rosa Parks Museum →	namedAfter
Parks → Parks ("Rosa Louise McCauley Parks") →	notableBearer
American South (mid-20th century civil rights era) →	associatedWithPerson
Claudette Colvin →	contemporaryOf
Rosa Parks Museum →	dedicatedTo
Rosa Parks ("Rosa Louise McCauley Parks") →	fullName
African-American history →	hasKeyFigure
Tuskegee, Alabama ("Rosa Parks (born in Tuskegee)") →	hasNotablePerson
Rosa Parks Day →	honors
American civil rights movement →	keyFigure
Montgomery bus boycott →	mainParticipant
Spingarn Medal →	notableRecipient
Outkast →	notableSong
Quiet Strength ("Rosa Parks as a civil rights icon") →	portrays
Browder v. Gayle →	relatedPerson
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks →	sameAs
Montgomery Improvement Association →	secretary
Raymond Parks →	spouse