Famed civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to…

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1. Rosa Parks

On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama.