“Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.”
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist born on February 4, 1913, and died on October 24, 2005. She is best known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, an act that sparked the civil rights movement in the United States. more
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