Rosa Parks

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"Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Now she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic act, and how did it sound the death knell for Jim Crow?"--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: African American women civil rights workers,  Race relations,  Civil rights,  Segregation in transportation,  Civil rights workers,  African Americans,  Biography,  History,  Juve,  Afro-Americans,  Afro-American women civil rights workers,  New York Times reviewed,  Parks, rosa, 1913-2005,  Montgomery (ala.), race relations

People: Rosa Parks (1913-)

Places: Alabama,  Montgomery,  Montgomery (Ala.)

Times: 20th century