Her life was full of grit and hard work, and Insider has collected 15 lesser-known facts to celebrate her legacy. Both of Rosa Parks ... more than 10 years earlier. In 1943, Parks boarded a ...

10. Working-class Black women were instrumental in the boycott’s success. At the time of the boycott, Rosa Parks worked was a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store, and she was ...

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks ... and fined $10. She chose to pursue her case, which was still moving through the appeals process when she passed away 10 years later. Parks’ neighbor ...

You know Rosa Parks as the civil rights ... who each year marks Parks' birthday on Feb. 4 by posting little-known facts about her. After reading “fact after amazing fact,” Hamilton asked ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday, a moment to honor her unwavering fight for civil ...

FOR DECADES, ROSA PARKS’S LEGACY HAS BEEN AS THE WOMAN WHO ... SHE’D BEEN MEMBER, YOU KNOW, THE SECRETARY OF THE NAACP FOR 10 YEARS. SHE WAS WELL AWARE THAT THEY WERE SEEKING TO BRING ...