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How activist Rosa Parks changed the course of history

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The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

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How activist Rosa Parks changed the course of history

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

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How The Henry Ford Museum Found And Restored The Bus Rosa Parks Was Arrested For Riding

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus sit-in to protest segregation — Bayard Rustin’s is the earliest one I’m aware of — Parks’ arrest was the catalyst for the…Read more...

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For Colored Girls 'Tired Of Giving In'—12 Songs By Black Women That Embody Rosa Parks' Fearless Spirit

L–R: Nina Simone, Alicia Keys, Rosa Parks, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige. Source: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions, Photo12 / Universal Images Group via Getty Images, Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy, Carol Lee Rose / Getty Images. Art Design: Siobhan Dixon.   Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks! Affectionately known as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” Parks was born…

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