On this day, Rosa L. Parks received the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP’s highest honor, in recognition of her pivotal role in sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56). Her courageous refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger became a defining act of resistance that energized the civil rights movement and elevated leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence.
Often called “the mother of the civil rights movement,” Parks’ quiet strength became a symbol of dignity and unwavering resistance in the face of injustice.
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