Women's Activism NYC

Rosa Parks

1913 - 2005

By: Matthew Peralta | Date Added:

She is best known for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This act of defiance against the Jim Crow racial segregation laws sparked the "Montgomery bus boycott".

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