HISTORY - Rosa Louise McCauley Parks has been called “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement” by the United States Congress. After refusing to give up
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Erie County, NY on X: "Known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," Rosa Parks' fight for justice predated & extended long after her 1955 refusal to move to the back
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