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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 ... On December 1, 1955, Parks famously refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus ...
In a powerful new book, a hero of the Civil Rights era tells her story to children
Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...
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Mineola Dozier Smith, 94, recalls witnessing…
Mineola Dozier Smith, 94, was on the bus the day Rosa Parks refused to ... The momentous chain of events sparked by Parks’ arrest is now etched into history books. There was the year-long ...
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65 Years Later: 10 Fascinating Facts About the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott is remembered as one of the earliest mass civil rights protests in American history. It's also the event that helped to make both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr ...
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Metro says its again reserving a seat on every bus, train for Rosa Parks' birthday
ALSO READ | DC's 'Black Broadway': Local author, journalist discusses book on history of ... with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother ...