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It lasted more than a year -- and helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement

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Parks' arrest was supposed to spark a one-day boycott. Activist E.D. Nixon, who was president of Montgomery's NAACP chapter, led the effort to turn Parks' arrest into a one-day boycott. It was such a success that it transformed into a broader boycott until buses were desegregated, or black people were treated better.

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Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James Blake, who had a reputation for treating black passengers without dignity. More than a decade earlier, Blake stopped Parks from entering the front of the bus, telling her to use the back entrance, then sped away before she got on.

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Parks died of natural causes on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, in her apartment on the east side of Detroit. She and her husband never had children and she outlived her only sibling.

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Rosa parks is famous for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to make room for white passengers when the bus driver ordered her to

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Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James Blake, who had a reputation for treating black passengers without dignity.

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Parks was a seamstress by trade, but was deeply active in the NAACP and Montgomery Improvement Association, working to improve civil rights in her community.

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The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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is a lady refused to give up her seat to a white man.