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The City of Atlanta honored Rosa Parks on Friday with a special bus. Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement.

BRITE Bus is marking the birthday of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, Transit Equity Day, by offering free rides on Tuesday.

Riders will not be charged for taking TriMet transportation on Tuesday, Feb. 4 in honor of the birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

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It was established in 1963 after President Harry S. Truman had created a similar honor, the Medal of Freedom in 1945, which was focused on wartime efforts and was later discontinued.