Civil rights legend Rosa Parks smiles as she is honored at an event commemorating the 1999 Congressional Gold Medal of Honor on June 14, 1999, at the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C.
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She changed the course of history when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger in the 1950s. She will forever be remembered as an African American civil rights activist whose actions one day, in Montgomery, Alabama, spurred a citywide boycott and helped launch efforts nationwide to end segregation of public facilities. Her name was Rosa Parks.
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