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I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks
Age: 92 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 4
Died: 2005
Died: October 24
Activist
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Tuskegee
Alabama
Rosa Lee Louise McCauley Parks
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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