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Rosa Parks - Topics on Newspapers.com

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Rosa Parks (February 4, – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist best known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Google Doodle honors Rosa Parks

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Google is honoring African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who 55 years ago today refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.

Montgomery bus boycott | United States history | Britannica

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The event that triggered the boycott took place in Montgomery on December 1, 1955, after seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. Local laws dictated that African American passengers sat at the back of the bus while whites sat in front. If the white section became full, African Americans had to give up their seats in the back.

Rosa Parks Rosa Parks Facts, Facts about Rosa Parks

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Nov 14, · Information on Rosa Parks. Because of her important role in the Civil Rights Movement, a lot of Rosa Parks information has been written. Rosa was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in Some of her earliest memories were of KKK marches down her street and the acts of arson they committed in African American neighborhoods.

Rosa Parks (Author of Rosa Parks)

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About Rosa Parks: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the Mother of the Modern-...

Rosa Parks - Google Books

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Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white...

Rosa Parks - Wikimedia Commons

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the Congress of the United States dubbed the "Mother of ...

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Claudette Colvin was the first African American woman to refuse to move to the back of a bus nine months before Rosa […] Parks did, but the NAACP did not want to use her to represent their organization because she was 15 years old and pregnant

Rosa Parks gives birth to civil rights movement - Ligali Forums

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On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home. Because she sat down and refused to give up...

Seated at the front…

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On December 1Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded this […] Montgomery City bus to go home from work. On this bus on that day, Rosa Parks initiated a new era in the American quest for […] Anniversary of the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Pic: President Obama on Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in