My family, I would say, my mother, and my maternal grandparents. I grew up with them. My mother was a teacher in a little school, and she believed in freedom and equality for people, and did not have the notion that we were supposed to live as we did, under legally enforced racial segregation. She didn’t believe in it.
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Rosa Parks
Civil-rights activist
United States · 1913–2005
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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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