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Rosa Parks was born.
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Rosa Parks attended school in Pine Line, Alabama
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Rosa Parks left school to help take care of her sick mother and grandmother. She got shift work to support them.
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Married Raymond Parks
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She completed her highschool diploma.
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She joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She worked as a Youth leader impacting the next generation.
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She refused to give up her seat to a white patron on the Cleavland Avenue bus. She was arrested and put on trial.
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Rosa, with partnership with her husband and two friends, founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development.
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Rosa published her first book (autobiography) called Rosa Parks: My Story
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She wrote her second book called 'Quiet Strength' influenced by her faith.
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President Bill Clinton awarded Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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at the age of 92, Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan.
