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I have heard about the Recy Taylor story, but never knew Ms. Rosa Parks actively worked on her case.

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I was surprised Rosa Parks had been trying to avoid that particular bus for a number of years prior to her arrest.

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I was unaware of the depth of her commitment, her involvement in notable legal battles not only for women, but people of color.

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The author assumed we already knew who Oprah Winfrey is.

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For years I considered Rosa Parks to be a hero. As McCauley describes in the text, when she attends an NAACP event with her in 1995, people were screaming at her aunt as if she were a celebrity. This confirms how significant of an impact she has had and how appreciative many people are of what she has done.

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This piece corroborates much of the information in the Theoharis article.

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I'm surprised that people think that her not giving up her seat was all a planned, staged thing for the media.

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I'm surprised that people think that her not giving up her seat was all a planned, staged thing for the media.

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What challenged me is that her involvement with the Civil

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What challenged me is that her involvement with the Civil

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Rights movement was not clearly stated until way later

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"This is how you know her: she was the tired seamstress who refused to give up her seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955."

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She was just a humble person who was not moved being famous.  She was an aunt who may would ask the same question your aunt would ask you.

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I didn't know that Rosa was involved in the civil rights movement before she refuse to give up her seat.

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...to learn that the pictures of Rosa Parks being finger printed was from an entirely different episode she had with the law.

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African american friends ignored her.

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I was surprised to learn that bus drivers were armed, and that her resistance literally endangered her life.

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I love that this article shows students that their relatives most likely have stories from the civil rights era and should take the time to ask them questions about it and what happened to them.

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AHA Moment
That co-workers did not speak to her for 5 weeks.

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Some people are trying to lessen her contribution to the civil rights movement beyond the boycotts.

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The author believed that I was already familiar with the public persona of Rosa Parks and her generally taught place in history.

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The author assumed that all we knew about Rosa Parks is that she was arrested during the bus boycott of the civil rights movement.

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I was sadly surprised that she was ignored by her coworkers and work friends of 5 years after she got arrested.

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Who Rosa Parks was and the story about her getting arrested for not giving up her seat.

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Rosa was committed to the advancement of civil rights prior to and after her arrest. I didn't realize how much she remained involved.