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Rosa Parks: The First Lady Of Civil Rights

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Rosa Parks was called the "the first lady of civil rights". Long time ago in 1955 there was seats for white people and black people. When she was riding a bus the seats for white people was full and the bus driver asked her to let the white people sit on seat for black people. Then she got caught because she don’t want to let the white people to sit on the seats for black people, so she said no to the bus driver. Actually parks wasn’t the first person to disobey the seat plan on bus. For example there is a women call Irene Morgan in 1946 and another woman called Sarah Louise Keys in 1952.Although, Parks lost on the lawsuit, people still think she’s the bravest woman.Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols
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