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Topic: Rosa Parks

American Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, 7th April 1998. On March 2, 1955, at the age of fifteen, Colvin was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. This predated the arrest of Rosa Parks and the the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott by nine months. (Photo by Dudley M. Brooks/The The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Photo by Dudley M. Brooks/Getty Images)

Claudette Colvin dies at 86

Jelinda Montes
Bruce Springsteen (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the Boss should reclaim patriotism

David Masciotra
Participants listen to a speaker during the Women's March for Truth on January 20, 2018 in St Louis, Missouri. (Getty/Whitney Curtis)

Rebecca Traister: "There's no peak fury"

Lauren Schiller

Who owns black stories?

Tom Roston
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Rosa Parks (AP/Paul Warner)

Ilitch paid Rosa Parks' rent

Rachel Leah
(AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Bull Connor spat in my face

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The State Department’s search for documents during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tenure contributed to "inaccurate and incomplete” responses under federal open records laws, including the existence of her private email account, the agency’s watchdog will report. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File) (AP)

Asha Parker
Ammon Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, speaks during an interview at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, near Burns, Ore. Law enforcement had yet to take any action Tuesday against a group numbering close to two dozen, led by Bundy and his brother, who are upset over federal land policy. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (AP)

Bundy is no Parks

Scott Eric Kaufman
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Rosa Parks (AP/Paul Warner)

Rosa Parks' amazing true story

Peter Dreier
(AP/Gene Herrick)

Rosa Parks: Let my people go

Jeanne Theoharis

Matthew Rozsa - The Daily Dot
Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Rosa Parks (AP/Wikimedia)

Let's boot Andrew Jackson too!

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
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(Fox News)

Joanna Rothkopf
Ted Nugent (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Janet Allon - Alternet
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. (AP)

Blackface in my 4th grade play

Brittney Cooper
(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Reuters/Gary Cameron/Jonathan Ernst)

GOP's race problem runs deep

Brittney Cooper
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Rosa Parks (AP/Paul Warner)

GOP still has Rosa Parks wrong

Josh Eidelson
(AP/Gene Herrick)

Samir Sonti - Jacobin
(AP/Gene Herrick)

Pushed as far as I could stand

Jeanne Theoharis
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