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Bookmark or Share- Rosa Parks: Biography, Civil Rights Activist, Bus BoycottBorn in February 1913, Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in 1955 led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her...
- Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Birth of the ...On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and civil rights activist living in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested for refusing to obey a bus driver who had ordered her and three other African American passengers to vacate their seats to make room for a white passenger who had just boarded. Parks had ...
- Rosa Parks: Timeline of Her Life, Montgomery Bus Boycott and ...Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, which sparked a yearlong boycott that was a turning point in the civil rights ...
- Rosa Parks: Bus Boycott, Civil Rights & Facts - HISTORYRosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions...
- Rosa Parks | Biography, Accomplishments, Quotes, Family ...Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement. Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights movement.’
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