I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
RP
Rosa ParksRemarks on her 77th birthday (1990)
About Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist whose bus protest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (1913-2005)
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