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US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott

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Rosa Parks and the Black Power Movement in Detroit

After the boycott ends, Rosa Parks and her family move to Detroit. She will describe Detroit as the Northern promised land that wasn't. And just like she had in Montgomery in terms of pressing against segregation there, she gets to work pressing against segregation in Detroit. The parks still can't find work; they're getting credible death threats.

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