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ROSA PARKS (1913- )
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks is most famous for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus — a defiant gesture that sparked the city's famous 1956 bus boycott. Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.


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