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Rosa Louise Parks became known as the mother of the modern day civil rights movement after she refused to surrender her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on December 1, 1955. Her action sparked a 381-day boycott of the bus system and ignited a national movement that ended legal segregation. Parks was a resident of Michigan for nearly 50 years and often visited Grand Rapids. She died at the age of 92 and was honored on September 30, 2010, with the dedication of a sculpture by the people of Grand Rapids at the park that bears her name.
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