Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon made famous for her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, is often mischaracterized as a quiet seamstress, with little attention paid to her full life story. A new Library of Congress exhibition, "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words," reveals the real Rosa Parks was a seasoned activist with a militant spirit forged over decades of challenging inequality and injustice. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Library staff host an introduction to the exhibition to media and selected guests in advance of the public opening.
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