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BORN:February 4,1913 Tuskegee,Alabana. DIED:October 24, 2005( aged 92) Detroit, Michigan. LIFE:Parks became famous for refusing to obey bus driverJame.

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2 BORN:February 4,1913 Tuskegee,Alabana. DIED:October 24, 2005( aged 92) Detroit, Michigan. LIFE:Parks became famous for refusing to obey bus driverJame blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. When Parks refused to give up her seat, a police officer arrested her.

3 Booking photo of Rosa Parks.Fingerprint card of Rosa Parks.

4 Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey fingerprints Parks during her February 22, 1956 indictment for organizing a boycott.

5 In this period, black and white people were segregated in virtually every aspect of daily life in the South, including public transportation. Bus and train companies did not provide separate vehicles for the different races but did enforce seating policies that allocated separate sections for blacks and whites.

6 Interior of The No. 2857 bus which Rosa Parks was riding on.

7 On September 9, 1996, President Bill Clinton presented Parks with theSeptember 91996 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given by the U.S.Presidential Medal of Freedom executive branch. The Rosa Parks Congressional Gold Medal Rosa Parks and U.S. President Bill ClintonBill Clinton


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