Our Heroines

Rosa Parks 1913 - 2005 Mother of the Movement Birthplace: Tuskegee, Alabama When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change. But they couldn't rest on just that change. It has to continue. Rosa Parks famously refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, and later went to prison for doing so.

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