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Rosa parks was an African American civil rights activist who congress later dubbed the "Mother of Modern Day Civil Rights." On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, at age 42 parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on the bus and was arrested for it. This act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. At the time of her arrest Parks was a secretary for the NAACP but instead of claiming her action as a protest for civil rights (like a sit-in) she said it was an act of a private citizen tired of giving in. After leading a difficult life Parks received many awards including the Spingard Medal from the NAACP and being named one of the 20 top influential people in the twentieth century. She died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005.