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rosa park
Title: rosa park
Category: History
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Rosa Parks has been called the "mother of the civil rights movement" and one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance.
Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the …showed first 75 words of 1357 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1357 total…launched on such a massive scale and lasted for more than a year. Furthermore, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was important because it set the tone for the whole civil rights movement. In particular, the boycott gave Martin Luther King a position of leadership within the national movement and showed that the nonviolent method of protest was effective.
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**Bibliography**
The Woman Who Changed
a Nation
By Kira Albin, interview conducted in 1996
www.achievement.org
Rosa Park
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