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Rosa parks

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) helped initiate the Civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of local black communities to organize the Montgomery bus boycott.  Led by a young Rev . Dr. Martin Luther King Jr the  boycott lasted more than a year ,during which Parks not coincidentally lost her job ,and ended only when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Over the next half-century, Parks became a nationally recognized symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle to end entrenched racial segregation.


 On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional; the boycott ended December 20, a day after the Court’s written order arrived in Montgomery. Parks—who had lost her job and experienced harassment all year—became known as “the mother of the civil rights movement.

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