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While Rosa Parks is often described as just a seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, she was actually a long-time activist for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and she worked hard to bring about civil rights for black people in the south. She was undoubtedly inspired by many people in the Civil Rights Movement (Martin Luther King among them), but the truth is that through her courage, she herself was an inspiration and her act of civil disobedience in December 1955 was a turning point in the fight against segregation.

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