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The Date of birth of Rosa Parks. She was born in Tuskagee, alabama
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Married Raymond Parks in 1932
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She received her highschool diploma in 1934
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She didn't want to give uop her seat on the buss
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During a 1956 radio interview with Sydney Rogers in West Oakland, Parks was asked why she decided not to vacate her bus seat. Parks said, “I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen of Montgomery, Alabama.”
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RosaParksplayedarole in internationalizing the awareness of the plight of African Americans and the civil rights King wrote in his 1958 book Stride Toward Freedom that Parks’ arrest was the precipitating factor, rather than the cause, of the protest: “The cause lay deep in the record of similar injustices…. Actually, no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually, the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, ‘I can take it no longer.'”
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She was selected to be one of the people to meet Nelson Mandela on his release from prison in 1994.
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In 1996, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton
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In 1997, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal – the highest award of Congress.
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Died in October in Detroit, MI
