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Rosa Parks on boycott and arrest

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Rosa Parks on Montgomery Bus Boycott and her arrest.Rosa Parks, famous for helping organize the Montgomery Bus Boycotts in 1955-1956, attended a workshop led by Septima Clark at Highlander Folk School four months before refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery on December 1,1955. Photographs of Parks's time at Highlander were used in the propaganda campaign to shut the school down.

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Tennesse State Library and Archives

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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. Civic Leaders
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Movements
  4. Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955 1956
  5. Parks, Rosa (1913 2005)

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