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Parks was born. She refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in montgomery, alabama. An act of resistance that launch the modernday Civil Rights Movement. Today, we spend the hour looking at her life. We have one of the most famous americans of the 20th century treated like a Childrens Book hero, not seen as being worthy of a substantive, scholarly treatment. That is what surprised me and continues to surprise me, the ways that we diminish her legacy by making it about a single day, a single act, as opposed to the rich and lifelong history of resistance that was actually who rosa parks was. We speak with historian jeanne theoharis, her new book, the rebellious life of mrs. Rosa parks. All that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The
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