In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping ignite the civil rights movement. Parks’ act of defiance became a symbol of the fight for racial equality in the United States.
The Seamstress Who Ignited a Movement: Rosa Parks’ Courageous Stand
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right ~ Rosa Parks
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