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Remembering Rosa Parks' Resilience And Resistance In The Face Of Racism
1 month ago | By News One
UPDATED: 12:30 p.m. ET, Feb. 4, 2023
Originally published: Dec. 1, 2017
Rosa Parks , who is befittingly called the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement” for sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, would have celebrated her 110th birthday on Saturday.
Born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the legendary civil rights icon who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give her seat up to a white woman on a public bus remains a strong symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of racism.
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