Also known as “the first lady of civil rights,” Rosa Louise McCauley Parks made a huge difference in the world of civil rights. She was born on February 4, 1913 and died on October 24, 2005. Her great story began when Mrs. Parks sat on a bus seat available only to whites. This woman's solitary act of resistance began a movement that ended legal segregation in the United States and created another model for freedom-loving people around the world. During Rosa Parks' life, she, among many others, suffered many problems with the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws. She once said in an interview that "We didn't have any civil rights back then. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan riding at night and hearing a lynching and fearing that the house would burn down." (Academy of Achievement) She said she had no particular fears, but rather consolation that she was not alone. Rosa married a man named Raymond Parks in Montgomery, Alabama. Together they joined the Nati...