I was a black woman who refused to give up my bus seat to a white man in 1955. This incident started the Civil Rights Movement in the USA with blacks campaigning for equal rights. Who am I?
A
Rosa Parks
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B
Michelle Obama
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C
Condoleezza Rice
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D
Harriet Tubman
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Solution
The correct option is A Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern-day civil rights movement” in America.
Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in the year 1955, triggered a wave of protest that pounded throughout the United States.
Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history.