Rosa Parks is shown here in 1988, at a celebration held in her honor in New York.
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to get up from a seat on a bus to move back. Her arrest triggered the Montgomery bus boycott, and helped bring together a civil rights coalition that worked throughout the US for racial justice and basic civil rights.
Rosa Parks in 1988
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