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20 paź 2024 · Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. She is known as the “mother of the civil rights movement.”
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To Reverend Braxton, family, friends, admirers, and this amazing choir: I -- I feel it an honor to be here to come and say a final goodbye. I grew up in the South, and Rosa Parks was a hero to me long before I recognized and understood the power and impact that her life embodied.
30 paź 2022 · Just horrific. Rosa Parks was farewelled on October 31st, 2005, at the Me… tropolitan AME Church in Washington DC at the age of 92. Even in distant Melbourne, we knew that she was a great woman.
1 gru 2020 · Here are 16 of her most memorable quotes: On the bus: “I’d see the bus pass every day. But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the...
29 lis 2023 · On a winter's evening in 1955, a 42-year-old African-American woman named Rosa Parks, tired after a long day of work as a seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to get home.
14 sty 2024 · In this collection, we’ve curated some of Rosa Parks’ most memorable quotes. May these words offer a glimpse into her character and convictions — and serve as a source of inspiration for all who fight for equality and social justice .
9 lis 2009 · Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions...
