Rosa Parks –

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Passing in 2005, the late Rosa Parks was a famous activist during the civil rights movement. Her refusal to give up her seat for a white passenger in 1955 is her most known protest.

“I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.”