I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what mus

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"I have learned over the years that when one's
mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing
what must be done does away with fear."

• Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Pioneer
• 1913-2005

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The Woman who changed a nation

• Mrs. Parks had a firm and quiet strength to
  change things that were unjust. She served as
  secretary of the NAACP and later Adviser to the
  NAACP Youth Council, and tried to register to
  vote on several occasions when it was still
  nearly impossible to do so.She had run-ins with
  bus drivers and was evicted from buses.

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On December 1, 1955

• The story is that on a December evening, a woman
  left work and boarded a bus for home. She was
  tired her feet ached. But this was Montgomery,
  Ala., in 1955, and as the bus became crowded, the
  woman, the black woman, was instructed to give up
  her seat to a white passenger. When she remained
  seated, she did get arrested but that simple
  decision eventually led to the collapse of
  institutionalized segregation in the South,
  ushering in a new era of the civil rights
  movement.

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Thank you, Mrs. Parks!

• Mrs. Parks stood up by sitting down. As a result
• The Civil Rights Movement began
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Dr. Martin Luther King became involved
• Montgomerys segregation laws were proved
  unconstitutional
• African-Americans are allowed to sit wherever
  they want.

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Mrs. Rosa Parks, the Mother of the Civil Rights
Movement
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• Special thanks to Ana-Alycia Tucker, Shakara
  Dillingham, and Erin Larkin for putting this
  together on behalf of the Black Cultural Workshop
  Club, BCW.