Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks

4 Feb 1913 - 24 Oct 2005

Best known for her arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back section of a municipal bus. Her arrest resulted in a year-long boycott of the city bus system by African Americans and led to legal actions ending racial segregation on municipal buses throughout the South