Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (born 1913)

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks 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 racial segregation laws, in 1952, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".

October 24 is the 297th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 68 days remain until the end of the year.