Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Alabama. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. Rosa Parks was ____ by her mother, later she attended  Montgomery Industrial School for Girls and then she went on to a ____ school. She was unable to ____ because she ____ to take care of her sick grandmother and her mother. Rosa never ____ to that school, but she worked in a shirt factory in Montgomery. In 1932, Rosa ____ a barber named Raymond Parks. Raymond was an ____ember of the NAACP. He supported Rosa to ____ her high school degree. Soon she ____ the Montgomery chapter of NAACP in 1943, serving as the ____ to the president. Together they ____ quietly to improve the lives of African Americans in the ____ south. December 1, 1955, Rosa was on a ____ to go home after a ____ day at work. Rosa sat in a ____ in the few rows designated for the ____ passengers. Montgomery bus drivers could ask coloured passengers to ____ up their seats for ____ passengers when no other seats were ____. That particular day, the bus was filling up with passengers. The bus driver ____ that many white passengers were standing, so he ____ the line that separated the white and coloured people back a row. Three out of the four passengers agreed to move; however, Rosa did not. The bus driver ____ the police and Rosa was ____. Although many people believe Rosa ____ to give up her seat because she was physically ____, the real reason is different. Rosa was sick and tired of the ____ of coloured people and giving in. She knew exactly what she was doing by refusing to give up her seat. Later that night, she was released on bail. Rosa Parks suffered many hardships throughout her life as a result of her act of ____. She lost her ____ at the department store and her husband lost his job. They were ____ to leave Montgomery because they couldn't find work. Rosa moved with her husband and mother to Detroit, Michigan, where they started a new life. Rosa obtained a job as a ____. In 1987, Rosa with a friend founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. The institute introduces people to important ____ rights. In 1992, Rosa published her ____ "Rosa Parks: My Story". Rosa received many ____ during her lifetime. One of Rosa's biggest ____ was the Springarn Medal, which is the NAACP's highest award. Some of her other awards were the Martin Luther King Jr. Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award (____ by Bill Clinton), the Congressional Gold Medal, and she was also ____ one of the 20 most ____ people of the twentieth century. Rosa passed away quietly in her apartment on October 24, 1995. Rosa Parks was a very influential woman who will always be ____.

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