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AI IMAGE - Portrait of Rosa Parks sitting on a bus, 1950s, (2023). African-American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. In December 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a row of four seats in the 'coloured' section in favour of a white passenger. Parks helped inspire the Black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year. The case resulted in the decision that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.