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Rosa Parks
19,200 words, approx. 64 pages
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Biography

Name: Rosa Lee McCauley Parks
Birth Date: February 4, 1913
Place of Birth: Tuskegee, Alabama, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Occupations: civil rights advocate

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Biography of Rosa Lee McCauley Parks
1,229 words, approx. 4 pages
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Lee Parks (née McCauley; born 1913) refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus. She was arrested and fined but her action led to a successful boycott of the...


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Rosa Parks Quotes
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Rosa Parks ( February 4 , 1913 – October 24 , 2005 ) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1 , 1955...


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Parks, Rosa (1913—) Summary
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One of the most prominent African American women in history, Rosa Parks is regarded as the person who sparked the twentieth century Civil Rights Movement in the United States—although Parks herself downplayed her role. Her refusal to stand up...
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Rosa Parks Information
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Rosa Parks (February 4 1913 – October 24 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". On December 1, 1955, Parks became famous for refusing to obey bus driver...


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The Washington Post
Rosa Parks
10/26/2005: 408 words, approx. 1 pages
SHE HAD NO army behind her. The law was against her. Only a few people knew her name. But Rosa Parks's individual act of courage and determination on Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately changed a way of life, moving the nation closer...
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Michigan Chronicle
Rosa Parks Timeline
11/01/2005: 379 words, approx. 1 pages
Michigan Chronicle 11-01-2005 1913: Rosa Louise McCauley is born Feb. 4 in Tuskegee, Alabama. 1928: Rosa, then in ninth grade, drops out of Booker T. Washington High School when her mother becomes seriously ill. She later attends Alabama State Teachers College for...
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Michael "Blue" Williams - Mr. Manager
1/13/2006: 1,103 words, approx. 4 pages
Who would have thought dropping out of college to become a roadie for Jodeci would have amounted to such enviable success? For founder and CEO of Family Tree Entertainment, Michael “Blue” Williams, this is his reality. His career in the entertainment field began back in...
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South offers pardons in rights cases
5/17/2007: 654 words, approx. 2 pages
Lillie Mae Bradford is downright proud of her criminal record, but she wouldn't mind an official pardon.The 77-year-old woman from Montgomery, Ala., got arrested for disorderly conduct in 1951 just for walking to the front of a bus and asking for a transfer. Black passengers...
 


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Rosa Parks' Ride to Freedom
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Rosa Parks
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Essay describes the Montgomery bus boycott by Miss Rosa Parks.
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Hero
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Rosa Parks as a hero today.
 


 

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