Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and died in 2005, known as the "first lady of civil rights" and "mother of the freedom movement." She refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in 1955, was arrested, and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. King was born in 1929 and died in 1968, becoming a national icon who used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to fight against racial segregation.