10. Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, was a pivotal figure in the American civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, she refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, leading to her arrest. This act of defiance ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 13-month struggle that resulted in the desegregation of the city’s buses. Parks’ courage and dignity made her a symbol of resistance to racial segregation, sparking nationwide change. (history.com)
