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Rosa Parks
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  • Length

    03:00 mins

  • Education Subject Areas

    Civics/Citizenship

    Social Studies

    U.S. History

  • Reference Number

    0705734NG

  • Title

    Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

Discusses major issues and events in the American civil rights movement beginning with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in 1955 through President Johnson signing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts a decade later. In 1999 Parks received the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of her contribution to the civil rights cause.

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