Rosa Parks Quotes


I want to be treated like a human being.


Citations

Parks, Rosa, and Jim Haskins. Rosa Parks: My Story. Dial Books, 1992, p. 116.

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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
  • Born: February 4, 1913
  • Died: October 24, 2005
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Civil Rights Activist

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 called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".