How tall is Rosa Parks?

Rosa Parks's listed height was 160 cm (5'3"). She was taller than about 52% of women in the United States.

Where 160 cm sits among women in the United States

Taller than about 52% of women in the United States born in 1913 (average 159.6 cm).

About Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist, sometimes called the mother of the civil rights movement. She was born Rosa Louise McCauley on 4 February 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, and grew up under Jim Crow segregation. She later moved to Montgomery.

Parks joined the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1943 and served as its secretary. She registered to vote after three attempts between 1943 and 1945. As secretary she investigated cases and organized campaigns around racial and sexual violence, including those of Recy Taylor and Jeremiah Reeves. In 1955 she refused to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, in defiance of segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.

Parks stood a listed 160 cm (5'3"). Local leaders had been searching for a good legal test case against segregation, and she was deemed a suitable candidate. She died on 24 October 2005.

Frequently asked

How tall is Rosa Parks in feet and inches? Rosa Parks was 5'3" tall, which is 160 cm, 63 inches or 1.60 m.

Is Rosa Parks tall for women in the United States? At 160 cm she was taller than about 52% of women in the United States born in 1913, whose average height is 159.6 cm.

Sources

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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