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We cannot expect change if we do not start change. Throughout history many moments have shook and changed the world we live in today. If these moments never happened what would our world be like now? Rosa Louise Parks was a woman who sparked a movement that many was too scared to do themselves. All Rosa did was simply not get up from a seat and the world went to talking.

Rosa Parks learned from a young age although her skin was dark she was still equal to her white counterparts. Rosa never believed that the skin she was in could stop her from succeeding in life. December 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks got aboard a Montgomery City Bus to head home from exhausted day of work. Little did this tired seamstress know that she would change

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