Black History Icons: Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913, and passed on October 24, 2005. Here are five facts about the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement.”
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- HuffPost
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- Manchester Evening News
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- BuzzFeed
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- Hello!
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- Manchester Evening News
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- The Telegraph
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- Oxford Mail
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- Hello!
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- Evening Standard
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- The Conversation
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- The Daily Beast
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- CNN
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- Hello!
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- The Telegraph
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- The Daily Beast
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- The Telegraph
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- HuffPost UK
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- Yahoo News UK
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- Business Insider
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