The First Rosa Parks Was Claudette Colvin - The Future of Freedom Foundation
Source: The Future of Freedom Foundation — February 17, 2026
Rosa Parks’s death on October 24, 2005, was met with tributes from across America and around the world to memorialize the impressive role she played in the Civil Rights Movement. On December 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a crowded Montgomery, Alabama, bus.