Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 3, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, became a pivotal figure in the American civil rights movement. Her courageous refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped ignite nationwide efforts to end racial segregation.
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