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Rosa Parks and the bus to freedom

by Beth Johnson

Race relationsAfrican American womenSegregation in transportationAfrican AmericansBiographyHistory

On a December day in 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. She was arrested, jailed, and tried for the crime of breaking the laws of segregation.

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Book data: Open Library