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During this time period in Alabama there was a law that the front of a Montgomery bus was reserved for white citizens, and the seats behind them for black citizens. If an African American didn't obey these laws or did not give up their seat they could get fined or even arrested.

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In 1965 Rosa Parks became an administrative aide in the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers Jr. She held that position until she retired in 1988. She also co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, to serve Detroit’s youth in 1987.

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“Rosa Parks.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 23 Oct. 2018, www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715.

History.com, A&E Television Networks, www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks.

"Rosa Parks." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 18 Oct. 2017. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Rosa-Parks/1689. Accessed 29 Oct. 2018.

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Her husband Raymond was part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Later on in 1943 Rosa also became a member of the NAACP and she was their secretary until 1956.

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Since she started the movement Rosa was known as “the mother of the civil rights movement”. She spent the whole rest of her life being devoted to the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks passed away on October 24, 2005 at the age of 92.

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Rosa received many awards such as Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton in 1996. She also received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.

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Since Rosa did not obey the law she was fined and arrested for violating the bus law.The results in Rosa's actions was the Montgomery Bus Boycott which was the start of the Civil Rights Movement.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was heard all over the country and was lead by Martin Luther King Jr. and people joined in on the boycott. In 1956, a year after the bus boycott the US Supreme Court rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional.

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On December 1, 1955 Rosa was riding the public bus on her way home after working a long day. A white man got onto the bus and realized there were no seats in the "white" section so he told the driver. The bus driver approached the four riders and told them that they will have to move. The three riders obeyed but Rosa refused.

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Rosa dropped out of school to take care of her grandmother and shortly after, her mother got sick. When Rosa was 19 she met Raymond Parks and he later on became her husband in 1932. He helped her return to high school to earn her diploma. Rosa and Raymond both worked as seamstresses.

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She had one brother Sylvester, and shortly after he was born her parents separated.