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Friends, colleagues remember civil rights icon Rosa Parks

Name: Friends, colleagues remember civil rights icon Rosa Parks
Uploaded: 2026-06-22T13:52:00-0400
Duration: 3 min 13 s
Description: Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, an act that helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, an act that helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.