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Rosa Parks

On December 1st 1955, Rosa Parks was faced with the decision to give up her sit to a white man. When she refused, she was arrested and fined. The incident with Rosa led the bus boycott to began, where Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of blacks to boycott the buses and walk to work. Eventually, Rosa Parks became a legion in civil rights and African American history. She also was awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton in 1996.Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913. Her mother was a school teacher and her father was a farmer. In her childhood she worked as a field as well as taking care of her younger brother and cleaning her school for tuition. She attended a private by the name of Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. It was an integrated school that was known for producing social activist, including Rosa. As an adult she as a seamstress, service clerk and was the secretary of the Montgomery, Alabama, NAACP chapter. She married Raymond Parks......


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