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Noun: Rosa Parks
  1. United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (1913-2005)
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Type of: civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker

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