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The Caucasity: White House Economic Advisor Calls Quarantine Protestors “Modern Day Rosa Parks’”
Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty GTFOHWTBS… Would you believe that conservatives clamoring across the country to end stay-at-home orders is now being compared to our esteemed ancestor invoking her CIVIL RIGHTS? Yep. This actually happened. IRL. Social distancing be damned…
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Rosa Parks Led a Crusade Against Sexual Assaults on Black Women
Rosa Parks is best known for her refusal to give up her bus seat to a White man, thus inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. But The Washington Post reports that Parks was an advocate long before propelling the historical protest. A decade…
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64 Years Ago, Rosa Parks Refused to Give Up Her Seat; the City of Montgomery Just Honored Her with a Statue
Hundreds gathered in the Alabama capital of Montgomery’s downtown this past weekend for the unveiling of a new statue honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks. On Sunday, city officials dedicated the life-size bronze sculpture alongside other tributes for the late…
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