Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is known for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks worked as a seamstress and activist for the NAACP. Her activism helped end segregation on public buses and she is considered the mother of the American civil rights movement. We can visit museums and sites in Montgomery dedicated to Parks and the bus she rode on to learn more about her impact.