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US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott

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The Importance of Rosa Parks in the Bus Segregation Movement

Roxanne Jones: Rosa Parks was seen as the right person for a test case. She says people trust her and can see themselves in her. But because of Cold War, that political history is a liability, she writes. "We want to remember that organizations like the NAACP ... will get red baited"

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