Born ON THIS DAYFebruary 4

February 4

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A Portrait of Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, civil rights advocate Rosa Parks was a community activist best known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, which resulted in the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. (1955-6). Parks is honored as the "mother" of the civil rights movement.

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