Rosa Parks was born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She grew up in Pine Level, Alabama with her parents and brother after moving there at age 2. As an adult in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The year-long boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. protested bus segregation laws and brought national attention to the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks became a symbol of the struggle against racial segregation and died in 2005 at age 92 in Detroit, Michigan.