Every day before supper and before we went to services on S… - Rosa Parks

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Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". She is best remembered for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she relinquish her seat so a white man could sit in the row.

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Birth Name: Rosa Louise McCauley

Native Name: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

Alternative Names: Rosa "Lee" Louise McCauley Parks • Rosa McCauley • Rosa McCauley Parks

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