Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Mrs. Rosa McCauley Parks (1913-2005). She was tired; her feet ached. The year was 1955 in the month of December when this seamstress was returning home on the Cleveland Street bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was ordered to give up her seat to a white man. When she remained seated, that simple decision eventually led to the disintegration of institutionalized segregation in the south, ushering in a new era of the civil rights movement.| HM Number | HM16X9 |
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| Date Added | Monday, October 6th, 2014 at 9:58am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16S E 283842 N 3987340 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 36.00660000, -89.39833333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 36° 0.396', W 89° 23.9' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 36° 0' 23.76" N, 89° 23' 54.00" W |
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| Area Code(s) | 731 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1367-1399 State Hwy 3 Bus, Dyersburg TN 38024, US |
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