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Rosa Parks
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Noun1.Rosa Parks - United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)


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In America, the pride of Rosa Parkes, who refused to give up her bus seat, breaking the unjust segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
This, Rosa Parkes foretold, when she took her place, on an Alabama bus, in the time of rock and roll.
Byline: By Denise Robertson Rosa Parkes died last week.
 
 
 
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