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Rosa Parks Woman Who Touched Off Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott by African Americans Premium Photographic Print
Schutzer, Paul
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Rosa Parks wasn't the first person to refuse to give up her seat on a bus, but she was the RIGHT person at the right time. Rosa was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and had recently attended a Tennessee center for workers' rights and racial equality. Also, the brutal murder of black teenager Emmitt Till had taken place just a few months earlier and the African-American community, as well as the world, was in an uproar. However, as Rosa herself put it, that day on the bus she was just an average citizen who was "tired of giving in."

WOODLAWN CEMETERY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN

(Photo courtesy of Josh Perry, Sterling Heights, Michigan)

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