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She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
She attended the Montgomery Industrial School for girls, Montgomery, Alabama.
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She married Raymond A. Parks -
She received her high school degree -
She is elected as secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) -
She was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus -
She is arrested again for organizing the boycott -
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In the 80s, Parks kept working for civil rights and educational organizations. In 1987 she founded The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development -
She was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal -
She died in Detroit, Michigan. She is considered as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[