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Posted: 2022-02-23T05:51:52Z | Updated: 2022-02-23T05:53:59Z

Kerry Washington is transforming herself into trailblazing Black women to celebrate Black History Month.

The actor has re-created historic images of three women so far this month: supermodel Beverly Johnson, Olympian Wilma Rudolph and, most recently, civil rights icon Rosa Parks. She has been publishing them with the hashtag BlackHERstory.

A lot of people think that Rosas activism started with her refusing to give up her seat on the bus. But she lived a life of activism long before that, Washington said in the caption on her post depicting Parks famous 1955 mugshot and her re-creation of it.

Fighting, boycotting, marching, and even working as an investigator for the NAACP, advocating against sexual assaults on Black women. It was Rosa Parks act of civil disobedience on that bus that sparked a revolution.

She took that seat in order to take a stand.

She encouraged followers to continue Parks work in any way they can.

Do whatever you can and however you can. Rosa taught us that. And we are forever grateful. It was an honor to honor her, she wrote.

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