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Rosa Parks: Boycotts
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Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was photographed by Alabama cops following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycotts. The booking photo, taken when Parks was 43, was discovered in July 2004 by a deputy cleaning out a Montgomery County Sheriff's Department storage room.
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The Rosa Parks section of Scholastic's"Culture & Change: Black History in America" includes a Parks interview and in-depth coverage of the bus boycott and the subsequent 1956 Supreme Court ruling. How would you feel in Parks' shoes? Submit your essay for possible online publication (look for the orange Online Publishing button) and read comments from other kids (the link to Read Kids' Writing is only on the submission page.)
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Bigoted, Dingbat Alert: "A spokesman for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst apologized in writing Tuesday for remarks in which he sarcastically linked Democrats boycotting the Texas Senate with civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks." 8/14
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