Active reading 1:Embarkation Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4,1913- October 24,2005)was an African American civil rights activist whom the US Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement." On December 1,1955 in Montgomery,Alabama,Parks, age 42,refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.Active reading 1: Embarkation Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the US Congress later called the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.” On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger