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ROSA PARKS

Mrs. Rosa Parks was a black lady who lived during a time when black people were not treated the same as white people. The black people had to use separate bathrooms and ride in the back of the bus because white people were the only ones who could ride in the front of the bus. One day Mrs. Rosa Parks was waiting on the bus and decided that she did not want to sit in the back of the bus anymore. When she got on the bus she did not go to the back of the bus but she sat in the front where the white people would sit.

On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Parks stood up for her Civil Rights and other people joined her. Mrs. Parks became famous for standing up for her rights. After that Mrs. Parks met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and they started Montgomery Improvement Association. Then other black people joined Mrs. Parks and stop riding the buses for 382 days. The bus company decided to let the black people ride on the bus and sit wherever they wanted to sit.

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