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65 years ago, Rosa Parks' arrest ignited the civil rights movement and led to yearlong Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Rosa Joins the NAACP's Montgomery Branch | Early Life and Activism | Explore | Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words | Exhibitions at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress
![MoorInfo on Twitter: "November 15, 1979 — Rosa Parks received the sixty-fourth Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. https://t.co/lrp37L09LL" / Twitter MoorInfo on Twitter: "November 15, 1979 — Rosa Parks received the sixty-fourth Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. https://t.co/lrp37L09LL" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEPHxHNXMAQdPkv.jpg)