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Biography
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".
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Awards & recognition
- Alabama Women's Hall of Fame · 2008
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series · 2000
- Congressional Gold Medal · 1999
- Presidential Medal of Freedom · 1996
- Golden Plate Award · 1995
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- National Women's Hall of Fame · 1993
- Candace Award · 1984
- Michigan Women's Hall of Fame · 1983
- Women's Caucus — Art Lifetime Achievement Award · 1981
- Spingarn Medal · 1979
- International Freedom Conductor Award · 198
- Ellis Island Medal of Honor
