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Rosa Parks: Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere.
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Rosa Parks. A woman Who sat down for what she believed in. No pun intended.
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"carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." Lady Diana
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Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Burmese Tiara
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Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Oriental Circlet
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Rosa Parks. A woman Who sat down for what she believed in. No pun intended.
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Her strength through the war was so inspiring. Ann Frank
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Oh, to give such good face. "It's not about the audience," she says. "It's all about fooling the other actors into believing who you say you are. That's hard, when you walk on set, when it's a big makeup job. And I take my entire performance from them, so if they don't look at me and hate me appropriately or love me the way they're supposed to ... then I'm lost, I don't have anything to go on." www.npr.org/...
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Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod. The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan’s hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls. Experts on Keller’s life believe it could be the earliest photo of the two women together and the only one showing the blind and deaf child with a doll — the first word Sullivan spelled for Keller after they met in 1887 — according to the New England Historic Genealogical
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