Historical Figure
Rosa Parks
1913 – 2005
NAACP secretary whose refusal to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Often called 'the mother of the freedom movement.' Worked with Congressman John Conyers after moving to Detroit in 1965.
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