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Rosa Park and Dr.martin Luther king
Rosa Park spent most of her life fighting injustice and became a civil rights icon when
she got arrested after refusing to give up her Seat to a white passenger and she inspired
Martin Luther King.
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Life for African Americans like Rosa was hard in the late 19 century Jim Crow laws
claimed to give African Americans ( separate but equal) status and treatment but there
was no (equality)
Black children had separate schools to white children, and they also had separate
libraries, churches, toilets and restaurant.
Parks was an active participant in the civil rights movement for several years and had
served as secretary of both the Montgomery and Alabama state NAACP.
She inspired tens of thousands of black citizens to boycott the Montgomery city buses
that was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr for over a year. In the wake of the Montgomery
Bus Boycott, Parks lost her tailoring job and received death threats. She and her family
moved to Detroit,but she was still a member of the NAACP.
Parks received the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest honor a civilian can
receive in the United States. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) also
sponsors an annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award,and In 1977 Dr. Martin Luther King was
posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for his battle against
prejudice. In 1983 the U.S. Congress established a national holiday, Martin Luther King,
Jr., Day, in his honor, to be celebrated annually on the third Monday in January. A
national memorial opened in Washington, D.C., in 2011.