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Rosa Parks

Ro·sa Parks

Rosa Parks

 
pronunciation:
ro z parks
part of speech: noun
definition: U.S. civil rights activist and icon, whose arrest in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to obey segregation laws on a municipal bus inspired a wave of civil rights activism; born Rosa Louise McCauley (b.1913--d.2005).