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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist, best known for refusing on 1 December 1955 to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white passenger, in defiance of Jim Crow segregation laws. A seamstress and, from 1943, secretary of the city's NAACP chapter, she was arrested and fined, and the bus boycott that followed lasted 381 days, until bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional in Browder v. Gayle. She moved to Detroit in 1957 and is sometimes called the "mother of the civil rights movement".
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