Rosa Parks Day is a holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks, celebrated in the U.S. states of California and Missouri on her birthday, February 4, in Michigan on the first Monday after her birthday, and in Ohio and Oregon on the day she was arrested, December 1.
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Seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Rosa Parks in 1955, with Martin Luther King Jr. in the background
The seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955
Booking photo of Parks following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott
Police report on Parks, December 1, 1955, page 1