Rosa Parks
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Happy Birthday Rosa Parks.
The post office has issued a stamp bearing the image of Rosa Parks today, her 100th birthday. The stamp is the first of three issued this year which will commemorate the Civil Rights Era. One hundred years ago, Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended a laboratory school established by the Alabama Read more
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Fifty-five years ago she stood up by sitting down.
Rosa Parks was not the first person to sit down on a bus and refuse to give up her seat, but she was a catalyst for the REAL Civil Rights movement. When people like her stood up, even without violence, they were doing a radical thing that was easily taking their lives into their hands. Read more
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