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Rosa
ParksRosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in
Parks never intended to get arrested as she made her way home from work that
day. Parks took a seat in the front of the black section of a city bus in
Parks action was not the first of its kind. It was nine months before Parks
refused to give up her seat, 15-year-old Claudette
ColvinClaudette Colvin refused to move from her
seat on the same bus system. Irene Morgan in 1946, and Sarah Louise Keys in
1955, had won rulings before the U.S Supreme Court, and the Interstate Commerce
Commission, respectively, in the area of interstate Bus travel.
But it was Parks disobedience which triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus
system by blacks that was organized by a 26-year-old Baptist minister, the Rev.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr. Parks, the 42-year-old
seamstress didn’t know at the time that her acts would help end
segregation laws in the South.
The boycott led to a court ruling desegregating public transportation in
After retirement Parks, wrote an autobiography and lived a largely private life
in
Parks, who died five years ago on October 24, 2005 in
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