PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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She was a key figure in the women’s movement with her book, The Feminine Mystique
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She was a key figure in the civil rights movement for her participation in “sit-ins”
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She was a key figure of the New Left for her stance on civil rights and the Vietnam War.
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She was a key figure in the civil rights movement for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. She is known as the “mother of the civil rights movement.”
Detailed explanation-2: -After Parks refused to move, she was arrested and fined $10. The chain of events triggered by her arrest changed the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rosa Parks was an American Civil Rights Activist who is famously known for Montgomery Bus Boycott, where one night returning from work she refused to give up her seat for a white person. This Act of Rosa Parks sparked the beginning of a movement which resulted in recognition of civil rights to African-Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -She refused on principle to surrender her seat because of her race, which was required by the law in Montgomery at the time. Parks was briefly jailed and paid a fine. But she was also a long-time member of the NAACP and highly respected in her community.
Detailed explanation-5: -1, 1955: Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat. On Dec. 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.