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There are women and women, but then there is

Rosa Parks.

Thanks to her, blacks in the United States had visibility.

After leaving on December 1, 1955 (it was 65 years old this Tuesday) from her working day as a

seamstress

in a shopping center in Montgomery, in the state of Alabama, she got on the

bus

that would take her home.

During the journey, she refused to give a

seat to a white person,

for which she was

arrested and punished.

The famous

mugshot

of Rosa Parks holding the number 7053 on the day of her arrest was the trigger for Edgar Nixon and an unknown Baptist pastor named

Martin Luther King to

organize one of the

most important

boycotts

in recent history of the country.

What was to be a Monday strike turned into a

381-day riot,

almost

financially ruining

the Montgomery bus company.

Of Montgomery's 105,000 residents, about 42,000 were black, who chose to commute by vans, bicycles, walking or carpooling.

As the

granddaughter of slaves,

Rosa was tired of blacks being considered

second-class citizens.

His grandfather always had a shotgun handy because members of the

Ku Klux Klan

lurked around and he walked to school while the whites took a bus to another purpose-built building.

She stopped studying as a teenager to

take care of her sick mother and grandmother.

Parks, on a Montgomery bus company bus similar to the bus he was riding on December 1, 1955, and in which he refused to give up his seat to a white person.

Rarely has a "no" meant so much.

In November 1956, the Supreme Court declared

racial segregation

on buses

unconstitutional

.

After that achievement he paid a high price.

Rosa and her husband, Raymond, were threatened,

insulted, black co-workers stopped talking to Rosa and

she was unemployed;

her husband was fired because he talked about Rosa despite the explicit prohibition to do so;

She could not find a job as a housekeeper and he was rejected as a janitor and they began to

accumulate so much debt

that they could not pay for the

drugs

to treat the stomach ulcers of the heroin in this story.

In 1957 she decided to

move to Detroit with her mother and her husband.

There Rosa continued her fight for national civil rights despite her great

economic precariousness.

At first, she found

odd jobs

at a hotel or as a seamstress in a factory, but after endless hardships, in 1965 she found work as a

secretary and receptionist

for Democratic Congressman John Conyer, in whose office she worked

until his retirement in 1988.

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Despite appearing in history books as one of the most important characters of the 20th century, his personal life left much to be desired.

She had become a

widow, she had no children, the psychological wear and tear

of achieving equality had taken a toll on her already delicate body and she was collecting a

paltry pension

that she could hardly afford to pay rent.

Helped by the community

Fortunately, her historic gesture did not go unnoticed by the higher echelons of Washington, who honored her in life as she deserved.

In 1996,

Bill Clinton

presented him with the Presidency Medal of Freedom and, shortly after, he received

the Congressional Gold Medal,

considered the highest civilian honor in the United States.

After suffering a

robbery and assault in his apartment, he

decided to move to a safer one.

The billionaire founder of the Little Caesars pizza chain, Mike Ilitch, took care of the expenses, but something mysterious happened when the owners of the building tried to

evict her

.

Afflicted with

progressive dementia,

practically without mobility and with visual impairment, she was about to be left on the street.

Neighbors, parishioners and other members of the community began to help her and, when her case was made public, the owners of the building chose to

pay her all the bills

in an act of cleanup.

After his

death in 2005 at the age of 92,

his body was veiled in the Washington Capitol.

She became the first woman and the second African-American person to star in this historic recognition.

Rosa Parks' performance obscures, in a sense, the famous phrase of Neil Armstrong after the human being first set foot on the Moon in 1969: "It is a small step for man, but a great leap for Humanity."

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