The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
is a biography that originally aired on Peacock
Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913. In 1952, Parks refused to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She is best known for her refusal to move, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, in 1952, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Congressional Gold Medal and was also the first Black American to be memorialized in the National Statuary Hall.