How tall was Rosa Parks?

Rosa Parks is commonly listed at 5 ft 2 in (157 cm).

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Rosa Parks’s 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) is a little below average for a US woman: about 28 in 100 US women are shorter.

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Rosa Parks beside others

Rosa Parks is one of the shorter activists we have heights for: Jesse Jackson (6 ft 3 in) stands 1 ft 1.5 in (34 cm) taller and Harriet Tubman (5 ft 0 in) is 2 in (5 cm) shorter.

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5 ft 2 in (157 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

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Rosa Parks, 5 ft 2 in (157 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)