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Guest columnist John K. Bollard: Seventy years after the arrest of Rosa Parks, Dec. 1, 1955

This week we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 for declining to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, so that a white passenger would not have to stand. Through one simple, but extraordinarily brave, act of individual protest, Mrs. Parks became a global icon embodying the ideals of […]

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