noun
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)
• Syn: ↑Rosa Parks
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑civil rights leader, ↑civil rights worker, ↑civil rights activist
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plural of park
present third singular of park
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/pahrks/, n.
Gordon (Alexander Buchanan), born 1912, U.S. photojournalist and film director.
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I [pärks]Gordon (Roger Alexander Buchanan) (1912 - ), U.S. photographer, writer, movie director, and composer. He worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration 1941 - 44 before becoming a photojournalist for Life magazine 1949 - 70. He wrote The Learning Tree (1963), Born Black (1971), and Shannon (1981) and directed the movies Shaft (1971) and The Super Cops (1973)
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Rosa (Louise McCauley) (1913 - 2005), U.S. civil rights pioneer. On December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, an act that inspired the civil rights movement. After the ensuing boycott and NAACP protest, bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional. Congressional Gold Medal (1999)
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