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Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but her decades of activism before and after reveal a broader legacy. She was a seasoned NAACP organizer, ...

A deeper look at Rosa Parks’ decades of organizing, resistance, and political struggle beyond her iconic 1955 arrest. Rosa Parks’ story begins long before the world heard her name. Born in Tuskegee in ...