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February 4, 1913 rosa was born Alabama
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the black citizens of Montgomery refused to ride the city’s buses in protest over the bus system’s policy of racial segregation
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Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, for a white person to sit.
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US Supreme Court—basing its decision on the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law—ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The boycott was a success.
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Parks lost her job as a tailor's assistant at the Montgomery Fair department store. Her husband Raymond also had to leave his job as a barber
