Rosa+Parks

=Rosa Parks=

4th of Febraury, 1913 - 24th of October, 2005
//Rosa Parks was an African American Civil Rights activist, who is still considered by many to be the 'mother' of the Civil Rights Movement.//

After witnessing the oppresion of her people, during her early life, she joined the Montgomery branch of the NAACP in 1943, and advocated the right to vote, despite the poltical and social barriers of the time. Her refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man on December 1st 1955 helped to spark the Montgomery bus boycott, which had a snowball effect in accumulating support for the Civil Rights Movement. After her release from prison, she joined the movement, which was already rapidly gaining power and became one of the main figureheads for the cause. She participated in the Freedom Rides and was present during the March on Washington in 1963. Her act of defiance remains an important symbol of the Civil Rights Movement and she has become an icon of the African American resistance to the repressions of segregation.

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 * Pretty short Tom. Doesn't look like 300 words! **