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Today in History: Rosa Parks Arrested

Rosa Parks arrested Dec. 1, 1955The facts: On Dec. 1, 1955, a seamstress got off work at the Montgomery Fair department store and boarded a bus. She took a seat in the fifth row, the 'Colored Section,'...

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41 – A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen: Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere

In the 1950s, a group of Montgomery, Alabama women baked goods to help fund the Montgomery bus boycott. Known as the Club from Nowhere the group was led by Georgia Gilmore, one of the unsung heroes of...

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Claudette Colvin: Making Trouble Then and Now

Nine months before Rosa Parks, a 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL. 66 years later, Colvin’s fighting to get her record...

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