October 24, 2005: Parks dies at the age of 92 Her body is brought to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, the first time for a woman to receive this recognition. Watch “Rosa Parks: Mother Of A Movement” o
Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement. Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights