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Rosa Parks was a central figure in the United States civil rights movement. Her full name was Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She ived in Tukegee, Alabama. On February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks instigated the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. She did this by refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger as required by law. Although secretary of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, Rosa Parks acted alone. Her defiance and the successful boycott cost her her livelihood until he moved to Detroit in 1957. Her defiance and the successful
boycott alo inspired later challenge to racial segregation. Rosa Parks had a memoir. It was called: Rosa Parks. It was published in 1992.

Rosa Louie McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to Jame and Lona McCauley. At age two her family moved to Pine Level, Alabama, to live with her maternal grandparent. Her mother, a schoolteach, taught Rosa at......

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