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Rosa Parks: I was determined...

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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Source: In The Meaning of Life, Life, Dec 1988.
-- Rosa Parks, (Feb 4 1913-2005), US civil rights leader; Her refusal to give up bus seat to a white man initiated a bus boycott and sparked the civil rights movement; won Spingarn, 1978.


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