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Definition von rosa parks im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: on buses was not legal (1913- ) a black woman in the US who became famous in 1955 because she refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. This action was illegal in the US state of Alabama and she was arrested by the police. As a result, Martin Luther King persuaded people not to use these buses, and in 1956 the US Supreme Court said that segregation (=keeping black people separate from white people). orig. Rosa McCauley born Feb. 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Ala., U.S. U.S. African American civil-rights activist. She worked as a seamstress in Montgomery, Ala., where she was active in the NAACP (1943-56). In 1955 she was arrested after refusing to give her seat on a public bus to a white man. The resultant boycott of the city's bus system, organized by Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, brought the civil rights movement to new prominence. In 1957 Parks moved to Detroit, where she was a staff assistant (1965-88) to U.S. Rep. John Conyers. She was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999; {i} Rosa Louise Parks (1913-2005) black American woman who refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Alabama (sparked the end of segregation in buses and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement)

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