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Rosa Parks rides on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, igniting the boycott that led to a federal court ruling against segregation in public transportation.

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Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Lt. D.H. Lackey for violating segregation laws in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger.

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Rosa Parks is escorted by E.D. Nixon, former president of the Alabama NAACP, on arrival at the courthouse in Montgomery on March 19, 1956, for the trial in the racial bus boycott. Parks was fined $14 for failing to give up her seat for a white passenger on a city bus.

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Rosa Parks speaks at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 15, 1969.

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Rosa Parks answers the phone while working on the staff of U.S. Congressman John Conyers, Jr., in Detroit on May 28, 1971.

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Rosa Parks is kissed by Coretta Scott King as she receives the Martin Luther King, Jr. Non-violent Peace Prize in Atlanta on Jan. 14, 1980. She was the first woman to win the award.

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Rosalynn Carter applauds as President Jimmy Carter introduces former civil rights protester Rosa Parks at the conclusion of Carter’s speech before the annual Congressional Black Caucus dinner in Washington on Sept. 30, 1978.

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Rosa Parks smiles at an Ellis Island award ceremony in New York City on Oct. 28, 1986.

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Civil rights leader Rosa Parks holds a bouquet of roses while being presented with a new automobile in honor of her 75th birthday in Detroit, Mich., on Feb. 2, 1988. Parks was born on Feb. 4.

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Jesse Jackson raises the arm of Rosa Parks as he honored her during his appearance before the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta on July 19, 1988.

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Rosa Parks is escorted to the speaker's stand at the dedication of the National Civil Rights Museum on July 4, 1991, in Memphis. At upper right is a wreath marking the spot where Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.

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Rosa Parks is seen with Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Democratic National Convention in New York on July 14, 1992.

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Civil rights leader Rose Parks sits in her Detroit home with her lawyer Gregory Reed on Aug. 31, 1994, during a news conference where she talked about being assaulted in her home.

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President Clinton smiles with Rosa Parks in the Oval Office on Sept. 14, 1996, after presenting her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Rosa Parks attends the commemoration of the 46th anniversary of her arrest aboard a Montgomery, Ala., bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., on Dec. 1, 2001.

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