Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) became the icon of the fight against racial segregation when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. Her act of resistance opened a new chapter in the fight for civil rights and, with that, Parks wrote history and changed the world.
By Hana Radovanović
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