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A black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, who, in 1955, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do. Her mistreatment after refusing to give up her seat led to a boycott of the Montgomery buses by supporters of equal rights for black people. This incident was the first major confrontation in the civil rights movement.

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How to use Parks, Rosa in a sentence

There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire|William O’Connor|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Paying for all those pensions inevitably means less money for parks and schools.
How Public Sector Unions Divide the Democrats|Daniel DiSalvo|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Harry was Aunty Rosa's one child, and Punch was the extra boy about the house.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
Aunty Rosa sat him upon a table and told him that A B meant ab.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
Unless perhaps, as Aunty Rosa seemed to imply, they had sent secret orders.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
Aunty Rosa had hidden a light cane behind her, and Punch was beaten then and there over the shoulders.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
Aunty Rosa had credited him in the past with petty cunning and stratagem that had never entered into his head.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling