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Rosa Parks born on this day

February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005 (92)

Rosa ParksRosa Louise McCauley an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" was born on this day in Tuskegee, Alabama.

She became famous for refusing to obey bus driver James Blake to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.

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