A Quote by Rosa Parks

We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.

Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks
American - Activist
February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005

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