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Rosa Parks is most famous for her [[December 1]], [[1955]] arrest for refusing a bus driver's order to give up her seat to a white man and stand in [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[Alabama]]. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]], and on appeal, the case ultimately resulted in the [[1956]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] ruling that segregated bus service was unconstitutional. Her arrest was used by Baptist minister [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] to lead the successful year-long [[Montgomery bus boycott]] and to help mount other protests against laws requiring [[racial segregation]]. Parks moved to Detroit in the early 1960s, where she continues to reside.

While standard accounts of ParksesParks' act of [[civil disobedience]] in 1955 refer to her simply as a tired seamstress, it is often forgotten that she had attended trainings at the [[Highlander Folk School]] earlier that year. The Highlander Folk School was founded in 1932 as an education center for workers' rights and, later, racial equality . Attacks on the school escalated in the 1950s as conservatives sought to expose its associations with the [[Communist Party USA]].

Although she is known for refusing to give up her bus seat, she was not the first to do so. Indeed, the [[NAACP]] had accepted and litigated other cases before, such as that of [[Irene Morgan]], ten years earlier, which resulted in a victory in the Supreme Court on [[Commerce Clause]] grounds. That victory only overturned State segregation laws as applied to actual travel in interstate commerce, e.g. interstate bus travel. The Rosa Parks case is considered '''the''' landmark because it applied to all segregationist laws, not just those affecting interstate commerce.

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And she loved to play [[Runescape]], and still does. Her screen name is Zezima. Thats right, the best player in the game is Rosa Parks!