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What Actually Happened With Rosa Parks Is Not What I Learned In School

What Actually Happened With Rosa Parks Is Not What You Learned In School
Alana Horowitz Satlin
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Senior Editor of Breaking News, HuffPost

This is Rosa Parks of Detroit, seen Aug. 22, 1965, who in 1955 refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Ala. From the woman's defiant stand sprung the roots of non-violent civil rights action across the nation. (AP Photo)
This is Rosa Parks of Detroit, seen Aug. 22, 1965, who in 1955 refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Ala. From the woman's defiant stand sprung the roots of non-violent civil rights action across the nation. (AP Photo)

We all learned about Rosa Parks in grade school. But do you know the full story?

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