Rosa Parks, Whose Act of Defiance Sparked Civil Rights Struggle, Dies at 92

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ROSA Parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the American civil rights movement, has died aged 92.

Mrs Parks was travelling home by bus in Montgomery, Alabama on 1 December, 1955 when ordered, along with three other black people, to give up their seats and move to the back to make room for a single white man. While the others moved, Mrs Parks sat firm, was arrested and fined dollars 10. At the time she said: "No. I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen."

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Rosa Parks, Whose Act of Defiance Sparked Civil Rights Struggle, Dies at 92

Her resistance galvanised the civil rights movement and inspired Rev Martin Luther King, the town's new pastor, to stag...

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