The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
is a biography that originally aired on Peacock
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913. She was an activist in the civil rights movement and a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1955, Parks refused to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a white passenger. She helped inspire the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year. Parks received national recognition, including the NAACP's 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall.