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How old was Rosa Parks when they refused to give up their bus seat?
Rosa Parks was 42 years old when they refused to give up their bus seat, on 1 December 1955.
Rosa Parks died 24 October 2005 at age 92 — 50 years after this milestone.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".
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