Dec. 1, 1955 Rosa Parks, an African-American was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her term of defiance sparked a yearlong boycott of segregated city buses. Rosa Parks is known as an iconic figure in the civil rights movement and the U.S. Congress called the “first lady of civil rights" and “the mother freedom of movement.” On September 9, 1996, President Bill Clinton presented Parks with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest distinction of the executive. In 1997, he received a Congressional Gold Medal.
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