SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rosa Parks

1913 - 2005

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American civil rights activist. 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. She is also sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement". Parks joined the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1943, serving as the organization's secretary. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rosa Parks is the 16th most popular social activist (up from 18th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from United States (down from 134th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Social Activist.

Rosa Parks is most famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Rosa Parks ranks 16 out of 840. Before her are Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, Aung San Suu Kyi, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Claus von Stauffenberg, and Bertha von Suttner. After her are Nicholas Winton, Jean-Paul Marat, Gustav I of Sweden, Mary Harris Jones, Peter Kropotkin, and Betty Williams.

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Among people born in 1913, Rosa Parks ranks 5. Before her are Albert Camus, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Willy Brandt. After her are Vivien Leigh, Menachem Begin, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Burt Lancaster, Klaus Barbie, and Claude Simon. Among people deceased in 2005, Rosa Parks ranks 3. Before her are Pope John Paul II, and Edward Heath. After her are Kocheril R. Narayanan, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Claude Simon, Arthur Miller, George Best, Paul Ricœur, Peter Drucker, and Simon Wiesenthal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rosa Parks ranks 146 out of 20,380. Before her are Jimi Hendrix (1942), Robert McNamara (1916), Harrison Ford (1942), Chuck Norris (1940), Patti Smith (1946), and Meryl Streep (1949). After her are Anton LaVey (1930), Zodiac Killer (1940), Ted Bundy (1946), Harvey Weinstein (1952), Will Smith (1968), and Daniel D. Tompkins (1774).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Rosa Parks ranks 5. Before her are Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), and Helen Keller (1880). After her are W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Margaret Sanger (1879), Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jody Williams (1950), and Jimmy Hoffa (1913).

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