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    Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist known as the "mother of the civil rights movement". In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The year-long boycott resulted in the US Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, ending this practice. Parks received numerous honors for her role in fighting racial segregation and advocating for human rights.

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    Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist known as the "mother of the civil rights movement". In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The year-long boycott resulted in the US Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, ending this practice. Parks received numerous honors for her role in fighting racial segregation and advocating for human rights.

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    Rosa Parks - Carlota

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    Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist known as the "mother of the civil rights movement". In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The year-long boycott resulted in the US Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, ending this practice. Parks received numerous honors for her role in fighting racial segregation and advocating for human rights.

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    Rosa Parks

    Champion of Human Rights

    Carlota Queiroz – 12ºB


    Who was Rosa Parks?
    - American activist;

    - Born on February 4, 1913;

    - Died on October 24, 2005;

    - At the age of 19, she married


    Raymond Parks;

    - “The mother of the civil rights


    movement“.
    Bus segregation diagram

    White only
    seating

    Black seating

    Rosa Parks Reserved if white section is full


    Arrest and NAACP

    7053
    Arrest Release
    On December 1, 1955 The NAACP paid
    Parks' bail.
    The Montgomery Bus Boycott

    01 02 03
    Rosa Parks was African-American End of racial
    arrested community stopped segregation on buses
    taking the bus
    Awards:
    1980 - Martin Luther King Jr. Award;

    1992 - Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award;

    1996 - Presidential Medal of Freedom;

    1998 - International Freedom Conductor Award.


    «People always say that I didn’t give
    up my seat because I was tired, but
    that isn’t true, the only tired I was,
    was tired of giving in.»

    — Rosa Parks

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