OUTSTANDING BLACK AMERICANS!
ROSA PARKS
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)
An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal
role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the NAACP believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws.
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Parks wrote her autobiography and it
was published in 1992. The title was:
Rosa Parks: My Story.
There were books written
about her available online:
National Geographic Readers: Rosa Parks
Who Was Rosa Parks?
By: Yona Zeldis McDonough
So Other People Would Be Also Free: The Real Story of Rosa Parks for Kids, by Tonya Leslie PhD
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There is a postage stamp available
in her honor. Review of Postal News
shows:
Rosa Parks Forever Stamp on Sale Nationwide
Second in New Set of Civil Rights Stamps Commemorates Historic Acts of Freedom, Courage, Equality
February 04, 2013
Release No. 13-018
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