Rosa Parks
Civil rights organizer whose December 1955 refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Grew up in Tuskegee and Pine Level, Alabama. Already an NAACP secretary by 1943, Parks had organized investigations into the rape of Recy Taylor and other anti-Black violence long before the bus arrest. The boycott that followed launched MLK Jr.'s national profile and overturned bus segregation across Alabama.
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Montgomery, AL, USA
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