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Refusing to be humiliated, the late Rosa Parks became one of the most revered civil rights heroes in the U.S.. To honor her on her 100th birthday on Feb. 4 the U.S. postal service has issued the 'Rosa Parks Forever' stamp.
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The Henry Ford Museum has announced it will mark the 100th birthday of the late civil rights hero, Rosa Parks. In 1955 Parks refused to move to the back of a bus because of her skin color, launching a civil rights movement that reverberates to this day.
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On Feb. 4, 2012 Rosa Parks, the woman that made America better by sitting on a bus, will have her 99th birthday, posthumously. She became a civil rights heroine Dec. 1, 1955 at the age of 42 and lived another 50 years.
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The U.S. Congress called Rosa Parks the mother of the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
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