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| Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913. She attended Alabama State College and then worked as a seamstress. She became famous by starting a civil rights movement in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man. |
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| She was arrested for violating a city law which required blacks to sit in the rear of the bus. The news spread and led to blacks boycotting the Montgomery bus system by not riding the buses. The success of the boycott made Martin Luther King, Jr. widely known. In 1979 Mrs. parks won the Springarn medal for her work in civil rights. |
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