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Rosa Parks

1913–2005

United States

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Biography

On December 1, 1955, Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott that challenged segregation.

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U.S. National Archives — original record ↗

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