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Montgomery bus boycott

Statue honoring the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rosa Parks statue unveiled at Capitol

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family.
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Thelma Glass

Remembering a Montgomery bus boycott hero

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
VIDEO - When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to sit at the back of the bus, Thelma Glass went to work organizing a boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama...
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Ala. bus boycott organizer, professor dies at 96

Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Thelma McWilliams Glass, a longtime professor and civil rights pioneer who helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, died on Wednesday. She was 96...
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