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About Me
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First Name: | Rosa |
| Last Name: | Parks | |
| Date Born: | 04 Feburary 1913 | |
| Date Died: | 24 October 2005 | |
| Birth Country: |  United States |
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| Gender: | Female |
Light a candle for Rosa ParksRosa Parks died on Monday 24th October at her Detroit home of natural causes. She was 92.
Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere.
"I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people," said Rosa Parks on the occasion of her 77th birthday. And so she is.
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