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Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (born 1913)

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Rosa Parks

American civil rights activist (1913–2005)

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, in 1952, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known…
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October 24

Day of the year

October 24 is the 297th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 68 days remain until the end of the year.
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