Picture this: it"s 1955, a winter evening in Montgomery, Alabama. A seamstress heads home after work. The bus fills with other passengers. The driver demands she give up her seat. Rosa Parks wasn"t trying to make waves, but her refusal set off a chain reaction that would propel the civil rights movement into a new phase. Raised in rural Alabama, she grew up under segregation and later worked with the NAACP as a secretary and investigator, gathering testimony of racial violence and discrimination. By the time she declined to move, she was already a committed activist.
Rosa Parks Day
Today in History
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International Moon Day
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International Day of Human Space Flight
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Florentine garden brings generations together
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Landscape Architecture Month
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A night on the (ghost) town
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Tour de France
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Desert bighorn sheep in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
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Young black caiman, Tambopata National Reserve, Peru
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A little bit of Wonderland in New York City
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National Fossil Day
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‘You should see the one that got away!’
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Here’s looking at you, teachers
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30 years after Exxon Valdez
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Thick-billed raven, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia
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Lucian Blaga National Theater, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Next stop, Tofino
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Labor Day parade in 1915 Chicago
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Quiver trees, Keetmanshoop, Namibia
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Rockin with the rockhoppers
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Zoroaster Temple, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
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Cypress trees in George L. Smith State Park, Georgia
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Sunny day, sweepin the clouds away
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