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Rosa parks was born, February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Although she had become a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, Parks suffered hardship in the months following her arrest in Montgomery and the subsequent boycott. She lost her department store job and her husband was fired after his boss forbade him to talk about his wife or their legal case.
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Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.
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Golden Plate Award, NAACP image award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional gold medal.
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She helped in the organization of the Scottsboro boys. She served as secretary to Edgar Nixon in the Montgomery division NAACP. Rosa Parks played a leading role in mobilizing people to support Recy Taylor. Her refusal to give up her seat on a bus lead to the influential Montgomery bus boycott. She is regarded as the mother of civil rights movement. She was considered one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
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Rosa Parks died, October 24, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of 92. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia, which she had been suffering from since at least 2002.
