The power of one: civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913.⁠ Refusing to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, Parks' act of resistance fuelled the wider freedom movement. ⁠ Pictured here after her arrest for civil disobedience, Parks was not the first to meet racist policy with direct action, but her commitment and profile within the community inspired the bus boycott which was to change the law in 1956.⁠ Later active in the Black Power movement and cited as "the First Lady of Civil Rights", when Parks died in 2005, aged 92, she became the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.⁠ 📷: Universal History Archive/Getty Images | 1 December 1955 | gettyarchive | #blackhistorymonth⁠ ⁠ #rosaparks #americanhistory #africanamericanhistorymonth #usblackhistorymonth #africanamericanhistory #restinpower #busboycott #civilrights #civilrightsmovement #montgomerybusboycott #montgomery #activism #socialhistory #hi...