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“There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.”

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Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist born on February 4, 1913, and died on October 24, 2005. She is best known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, an act that sparked the civil rights movement in the United States. more

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