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Also Known As Rosa Louise McCauley
Born February 4, 1913 • Tuskegee • Alabama
Died October 24, 2005 (aged 92) • Detroit • Michigan
Role In American civil rights movement • Montgomery bus boycott

Did You Know?

  • Rosa Parks called Malcolm X her hero, and they interacted several times during the American civil rights movement.
  • Rosa Parks was a lifelong activist, as was her husband.
  • Rosa Parks was not the first black woman to refuse to move from her bus seat; Claudette Colvin had done the same nine months earlier, and countless women had before that.

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