https://padlet.com/525959/b48ui9tkmly2drx2 en-us 2021-04-30 00:34:32 UTC 2021-04-30 01:32:01 UTC hello@padlet.com 525959 https://padlet.com/525959/b48ui9tkmly2drx2/wish/1476341556 Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. She was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement." Parks worked as a seamstress at a local department store and was secretary to the Montgomery Chapter of the NAACP(The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). She recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a center in Tennessee to train activists for workers' rights and racial equality. Although she was widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job and received death threats for years. She died on October 24, 2005 in Detroit, ML.

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Side panels. As a student, Lewis became an activist in the civil rights movement. He hosted sit-ins at separate lunch counters in Nashville and participated in many other civil rights activities as part of the Nashville Student Movement. He died on July 17, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. 

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