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Rosa Parks was an African American activist whose refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955 triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott — a 381-day mass protest that became a pivotal moment in the American civil rights movement and led to the US Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. Often portrayed simply as a tired seamstress who spontaneously refused to move, she was in fact a trained activist and secretary for the NAACP whose act of resistance was a deliberate and courageous stand informed by years of civil rights work. Congress awarded her the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999, and her quiet act of defiance continues to stand as one of the most powerful examples of individual courage in the face of systemic injustice.

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