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Thursday, February 28, 2013

other rosa parks

The president and congressional leaders Wednesday unveiled a statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, the first black woman so honored in Statuary Hall. She is seated in tribute to her refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, as the law then required. But there is also an unsung hero in this story, and we caught up with her.
Claudette Colvin was just 15 when she refused to give up her seat on a
segregated bus in http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=eveningNews&catid=57571707&feed_id=29

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