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Rosa Parks Observation Report

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According to the Academy of Achievement site, Rosa Parks was a civils right activist who became well known only after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks arrest led thousands of Blacks in the city of Montgomery to stop riding Montgomery buses for 382 in an effort to boycott. Montgomery public transportation had been segregated for years prior to the Rosa Park’s bravery. Montgomery’s segregated transportation ordinance was forced to be removed, after the Supreme Court ruled that the ordinance was unconstitutional.
Rosa Parks Biography-Academy of Achievement.” Academy of Achievement. 26 Feb. 2010. Web. 3 June 2014. http://www.acievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1. According to the editors of Biography.com,
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