Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist who became famous in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her brave act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped launch the civil rights movement
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Raymond Arthur Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement and barber, best known as the husband of Rosa Parks. His wife called him "the first real activist I ever met.”