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Rosa Parks
civil rights activist
browse: autobiographers, human rights defenders
dead
- born
- 1913
- died
- 2005
- age at death
- 92
- known for
- autobiographer, human rights defender, civil rights advocate
1913 – 2005
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who rosa parks is
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".
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