The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
is a biography that originally aired on Peacock
Rosa Louise McCauley was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is best known for her refusal to move from her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, in defiance of Jim Crow laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. Parks was a supporter of the Black power movement and an anti-apartheid activist. She received numerous awards and honors throughout her life and posthumously, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal.