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Remembering Rosa Parks

Fifty years ago, Rosa Parks made history by breaking the law. Her crime? Sitting wherever she wanted on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. It's an act that would not draw attention today. But in 1955, laws in some states required separate seating for blacks and whites. Parks, a black woman, was arrested for not giving her seat to a white man.

After Parks's arrest, many African Americans refused to ride buses in Montgomery for 381 days. In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court did away with separate seating on buses. In 1964, the Civil Rights act outlawed racial discrimination in all public places.

Parks died last Monday at the age of 92. Many think of her as the mother of the civil rights movement.

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