Selects: Rosa Parks: Agent of Change

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Rosa Parks is well known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus, but she actually spent her whole life championing civil rights. Learn more about this amazing woman in this episode! For more magical Disney stories, visit us at abc11.com/magic-of-storytelling. Learn more abo ...  Show more

Rosa Parks is known to most as the woman who took a stand by sitting down. In the collective memory, her legacy is confined to that one day, but in hindsight, refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus was neither her first nor her last fight for social justice. Support the ...  Show more

By the time she died in 2005, Rosa Parks was known around the world as an icon of activism. Her act of defiance one ordinary Thursday afternoon in Montgomery, Alabama catapulted her to the forefront of the battle for racial equality in America. But what was her story before that ...  Show more

Thanks to a couple of recent news stories about Rosa, we're heading back to 2012 and revisiting the life of this civil rights activist and icon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices