Roza Parks

Roza Parks

African American seamstress and active NAACP member arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white patron in Montgomery, Alabama, prompting a huge bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Category: American history
Company: University of Houston
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