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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks Tribute |
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Rosa Parks, shows off the Wonder Woman Foundation's special 1984 Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award on November 14, 1984. At left is actress Cicely Tyson who presented the award. Parks was honored for her work in Civil Rights.
Rosa Parks is an African American civil rights activist, who is often called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus triggered the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 and set in motion the test case for the desegregation of public transportation.
Parks has received numerous awards and tributes, including the NAACP's highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, in 1970 and the prestigious Martin Luther King, Jr. Award in 1980. Cleveland Avenue in the city of Montgomery was renamed Rosa Parks Boulevard in 1965. In 1996 U.S. president Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that the U.S. government can give to a civilian and the United States Congress bestowed upon her the Congressional Gold Medal.
A friend once described Parks as someone who, as a rule, did not defy authority, but once determined on a course of action, refused to back down: "She might ignore you, go around you, but never retreat."
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Rosa Parks in January 19, 1983.
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Rosa Parks Presidential Medal of Freedom
Rosa Parks Congressional Gold Medal
Rosa Parks joins in a march at the South African Embassy in Washington Monday December 10, 1984, protesting the country's racial policies. I plan not to give up until all are free, Mrs. Parks said.
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