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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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From blogs.archives.gov - December 7, 2015 5:31 AM
Prologue: Pieces of History » The Montgomery Bus Boycott Blog

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Artifacts show a Rosa Parks steeped in freedom struggle from childhood

Artifacts show a Rosa Parks steeped in freedom struggle from childhood | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.washingtonpost.com - February 10, 2015 7:47 AM


When Rosa Parks was a little girl in rural Alabama, she would stay up at night, keeping watch with her grandfather as he stood guard with a shotgun against marauding members of the Ku Klux Klan.


Klansmen often terrorized black communities in the early 1900s, and
Parks’s grandfather, Sylvester Edwards, the son of a white plantation owner, had their house boarded up for protection.


But Parks longed for a showdown.


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Featured Source: Woman fingerprinted

Featured Source: Woman fingerprinted | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From primarysourcenexus.org - February 26, 2015 4:06 AM
Complete a primary source analysis of this image using the Library’s primary source analysis tool. Then click the image above to see if the information found in the curator’s note there answers any of your questions.
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