ROSA PARKS

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• ROSA PARKS (noun)
  The noun ROSA PARKS has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: ROSA PARKS used as a noun is very rare.

• ROSA PARKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Parks; Rosa Parks

Instance hypernyms:

civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)