Rosa Parks
This undated file photo shows Rosa Parks riding on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Her arrest in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat for a white man launched a boycott of the city's buses in protest of segregation, and sparked the modern civil rights movement.
Born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, she would marry Raymond Parks in 1932, who inspired her to become involved in the NAACP.
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A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken February 22, 1956, in Montgomery, Ala.
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Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Dep. Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955.
Trial
Rosa Parks arrives at circuit court to be arraigned in the racial bus boycott, Feb. 24, 1956, in Montgomery, Ala. Her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement.
Trial
Rosa Parks and E.D. Nixon, left, former president of the Alabama NAACP, arrive at court in Montgomery, Ala., March 19, 1956, for the trial in the racial bus boycott.
Trial
Rosa Parks is escorted by E.D. Nixon, former president of the Alabama NAACP, on arrival at the courthouse in Montgomery March 19, 1956, for the trial in the racial bus boycott.
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Rosa Parks speaks at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 15, 1969.
State of the Union Guest
Hillary Clinton, right, then first lady, greets Rosa Parks prior to President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address on Capitol Hill Jan. 19, 1999. Parks attended the address as a guest of the Clintons.
Congressional Gold Medal
Rosa Parks smiles during a Capitol Hill ceremony where she was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal June 15, 1999.
Congressional Gold Medal
Bill Clinton, right, then president of the United States, talks with Rosa Parks during ceremonies on Capitol Hill June 15, 1999, when Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for her act of courage when she refused to give up her seat on a bus. It became one of the landmarks of the civil rights movement.
Congressional Gold Medal
Rosa Parks, left, talks with President Clinton during a Capitol Hill ceremony where she was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal June 15, 1999.
Congressional Gold Medal
Rosa Parks displays her Congressional Gold Medal of Honor with Vice President Al Gore before a benefit tribute concert in honor of Mrs. Parks Nov. 28, 1999, in Detroit.
Congressional Gold Medal
Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit, in a Nov. 28, 1999, photo.
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Rosa Parks waves to the audience before a benefit concert in her honor Nov. 28, 1999, in Detroit.
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Rosa Parks is shown in Montgomery, Ala., April 22, 1998, at the groundbreaking of the Rosa Parks Library at Troy State University in Montgomery. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92.
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Rosa Parks attends the opening of "Marching Toward Justice: The History of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution" Feb. 3, 1999. The event included a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building as part of Black History month.
Henry Ford Museum
A visitor to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., Dec. 1, 2001, looks inside the actual bus on which civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955.
Rosa Parks
At the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., Rosa Parks attends the commemoration Dec. 1, 2001, of the 46th anniversary of her arrest aboard a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955.