Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist.

She is best known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.

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This act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the civil rights movement.

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Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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She worked as a seamstress and was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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Parks was arrested and convicted for her refusal to give up her seat.

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her case was taken up by the NAACP and eventually reached the Supreme Court, which declared the segregation of buses to be unconstitutional.

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Parks received numerous awards and honors for her activism.

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