Parks was a long-time member of the Montgomery chapter of which civil rights organization?

True or False: Rosa Parks had a prior encounter with James Blake, the bus driver who demanded she vacate her seat.

True or False: Parks’ act of civil disobedience—her courageous refusal to move seats on the bus—was premeditated and planned as a test case for the NAACP to challenge the constitutionality of segregation and the Jim Crow laws.

True or False: Parks refused to leave her seat on the Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955 because her feet were tired.

True or False: Parks was the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol for a final tribute (usually reserved for statesmen and military leaders) when she died on October 24, 2005.

Which city did Parks move to, along with her husband and mother, in 1957, where she lived for the rest of her life?

True or False: Parks was arrested and jailed a second time in February 1956.

What was Parks’ role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

What did transit authorities in NYC, Washington, D.C., and other American cities do in honor of the 50^th anniversary of Parks’ act of defiance and subsequent arrest?

Which of the following honorific titles has Rosa Parks NOT been called?

True or False: In 2013, Rosa Parks became the first African American woman to have her likeness depicted in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol.

Why did Rosa Parks drop out of high school at age 16?

Buses in Montgomery had been segregated according to race ever since a law was passed in which year?

True or False: It rained on the Monday of the initial one-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, but the protest was still an overwhelming success.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott continued for 381 days and didn’t end until the city repealed its segregation law. In the end, why did this change occur?

Which famous civil rights activist wrote about the importance of Rosa Parks in providing a catalyst for the protests, as well as a rallying point for those who were tired of the social injustices of segregation?

Why did Parks and her husband move from Montgomery, Alabama to Virginia, before settling in Detroit?

Where was Parks born on February 4, 1913?

True or False: President George W. Bush issued a proclamation ordering that all flags on U.S. public areas should be flown at half-staff on the day of Parks’ funeral.

Which well-known and vitally important organization was founded in 1909, was originally called the National Negro Committee, and played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s?

After Parks survived a robbery and assault in her Detroit apartment in 1994, Mike Ilitch—the founder of which Michigan-based pizza company—and his wife paid Parks’ rent in a safer apartment until her death in 2005?