In the excerpt it is very interesting how the author describes her as dancing with passion, and with happiness, and how it is all up of admiration and she is rejoicing on her victory and how she feels outgoing, and blissfully happy, because of her actions and she feels intoxicated with pleasure. So the best way to express what the excerpt is saying would be that she is outgoin and blisfully happy.
She commited daring acts like sitting in the front of the bus, where blacks weren't allowed, protesting during the civil rights movement, and inspired people to follow in her footsteps.