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On February 4, to celebrate Rosa Parks's 100th birthday, the Henry Ford Museum declared the day a "National Day of Courage" with 12 hours of virtual and on-site activities featuring nationally recognized speakers, musical and dramatic interpretative performances, a panel presentation of "Rosa's Story" and a reading of the tale "Quiet Strength Rosa Parks Day is a holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks, celebrated in the U.S. states of Missouri and Massachusetts on her birthday, February 4, in Michigan and California on the first Monday after her birthday, and in Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Oregon and several cities and counties on the day she was arrested, December 1. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Inarguably the biggest event of the day, however, was what Parks’ trial had triggered. a decade after her husband’s death, Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self April 14, 2005: Parks and the hip-hop group Outkast reach an out-of-court settlement regarding their 1998 song "Rosa Parks." October 24, 2005: Parks dies at the age of 92 In the 1990s, Parks published an autobiography, “Rosa Parks: My story,” detailing her life as an activist. Parks was widowed in 1977 when her husband died of throat cancer. Similarly, her close friend by the name Fannie Lou Hamer died the same year and Parks learned about her death in the newspapers. When Rosa passed away on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, people around the world mourned her loss. Her body lay in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, an honor reserved for only a few great Americans. Why Rosa Parks Matters. Rosa Parks’ story is a reminder that courage doesn’t always come with loud speeches or grand gestures. A Michigan public act established Rosa Parks Day, celebrated on the first Monday following her February 4 birthday. Rosa Parks was 92 years old when she died in her Detroit home on October 24, 2005. The front seats of city buses in Detroit and Montgomery were adorned with black ribbons in the days preceding her funeral. Honored in Death: Upon her death in 2005, Rosa Parks was the first woman and the second African American to lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda. A Day for Rosa : In the United States, Rosa Parks Day is celebrated on February 4, her birthday, in states like California and Missouri, and on December 1 in Ohio and Oregon, marking the Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit on Nov. 28, 1999. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions DETROIT (AP) - Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92. Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, African-American civil rights activist (1913-2005) – Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee (City in Macon County, Alabama, United States) on February 4th, 1913 and died in Detroit (City in and county seat of Wayne County, Michigan, United States) on October 24th, 2005 at the age of 92. Today Rosa Parks would be 111 years old. Rosa Parks, often referred to as “the mother of the civil rights movement,” passed away on October 24, 2005 at the age of 92. Parks became a symbol of resistance and courage after her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Rosa Parks Day 2025, 2026 and 2027. Rosa Parks Day celebrates the life of the activist who toiled on behalf of African-American civil rights. It is a state-level holiday in California and Ohio. Rosa Parks was born on 4 February 1913 in Tuskagee, Alabama, and died in 2005 at the age of 92 in Detroit, Michigan. Rosa Parks Day honors the American Civil Rights hero on December 1st, the day she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger while riding a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. In some states it's also celebrated on February 4th, her birthday, or the first Monday after her birthday - February 5th in 2024. The suit, which was settled out of court in 2005, sparked concern among some of her relatives that her name was being exploited by her legal team. As her health declined, Parks became more reclusive. Rosa Parks died in Detroit on October 24, 2005. In 2018, the state of Alabama declared December 1 "Rosa Parks Day" to commemorate her accomplishments. Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the Rosa Parks1913–2005 Activist, writer According to the old saying, "some people are born to greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Greatness was certainly thrust upon Rosa Parks, but the modest former seamstress found herself equal to the challenge. In the wake of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Parks lost her tailoring job and received death threats. She and her family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1957. However, she remained an active member of the NAACP and worked for Congressman John Conyers (1965-1988) helping the homeless find housing.
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