I would have to take longer than a minute to give my whole synopsis of my life, but I want to let you know that all of us should be free and equal and have equal opportunity and that is what I’m trying to instill and encourage and inspire young people to reach their highest potential.
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Rosa Parks
Civil-rights activist
United States · 1913–2005
Politics and public life
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American civil-rights activist whose refusal in December 1955 to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus triggered the Montgomery bus boycott. She had been secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and remained an activist and organiser for the rest of her life.
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