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Women Who Changed the World: Rosa Parks


There were many women who have changed the world in the fields of math,
science, sports, music, writing and leadership. Rosa Parks was a leader to help
the blacks become equal to whites. Eleanor Roosevelt was also a leader because
she helped the poor. Harriet Tubman was also a leader which helped free black
slaves.
I am going to tell what Rosa Parks did to help the world be a better
place. Parks, Rosa Louise (1913- ), civil rights leader, born in Tuskegee,
Alabama. She attended Alabama State College, worked as a seamstress and
housekeeper, and was active in the Montgomery Voters League and the NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Youth Council. In
1943 she was elected secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP. In a
celebrated incident in 1955 she was arrested for violating segregation laws when
she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This resulted in a
boycott of the bus system by......

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