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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African-American seamstress whose refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger on 5 December 1955 galvanized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and catapulted her into history as the “mother of the civil rights movement.”
HistoryCivil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement was a decades-long, non-violent crusade—peaking between 1954 and 1968—that dismantled legalized racial segregation and secured federal protections for African-American citizenship rights, forever redefining American democracy.