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5 Things History Books Didn’t Tell Us About Rosa Parks’ Famous Arrest
Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday ... during Black History Month—alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman—her story is one we think we ...
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Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was ... Alabama, where Rosa Parks was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. After Parks' arrest, King came to national prominence in ...
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65 Years Later: 10 Fascinating Facts About the Montgomery Bus Boycott
It's also the event that helped to make both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. household names when, enraged with the way Black Americans were treated, they helped organize and carry out the ...
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Rosa Parks
The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Plaza in Montgomery Julia Binswanger William "W.R ...
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The fight for civil rights in 1950s and 1960s America
The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of civil rights acts and Supreme Court rulings to end segregation. These judgments ...