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 was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, a century-old independent Black denomination founded by free Blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the early nineteenth century. Her name was a portmanteau of her maternal and paternal grandmothers' names: Rose and Louisa. She is best known for her refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.