Rosa Parks

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Rosa Parks was born 4 February 1913.

Civil rights activist, in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955 refused to obey a bus driver's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. Her act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation and organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.