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Rosa Parks
1913 - 2005
A quiet act of courage that sparked a movement and changed the course of history.
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A quiet act of courage that sparked a movement and changed the course of history.
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Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement."
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Born in Tuskegee, Alabama
1955
Refused to give up her seat
1956
Supreme Court ends bus segregation
1996
Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
2005