ROSA PARKS: STANDING UP FOR FREEDOM

Title: ROSA PARKS: STANDING UP FOR FREEDOM
Category: /Law & Government/International
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ROSA PARKS: STANDING UP FOR FREEDOM
Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving …showed first 75 words of 628 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 628 total…the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet."

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