Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rosa_parks

1 sense of rosa parks

Sense 1
Parks, Rosa Parks -- (United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913))
       INSTANCE OF=> civil rights leader, civil rights worker, civil rights activist -- (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)