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Rosa Parks was an incredible African-American civil rights activist who was born in Alabama, USA in 1913. Rosa attended school but stopped studying as a young teenager to look after her grandmother. As a child Rosa experienced discrimination because of her skin colour and lived in constant fear of terrible groups like the Klu Klux Klan.
At the time, laws in America were very racist and black people had to sit in separate areas on buses away from white people. On December 1st, 1955, Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man. The police arrested Rosa for civil disobedience and fined her $10. Her arrest was one of the largest and most successful movements against racial segregation in history, and lefr her an iconic status in American culture.
Over the years, Rosa received many awards for her activism, including the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr. award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Rosa died in 2005, but left us with this message: 'I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.'