Tag: #Segregation
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The Far-Reaching Development of Segregation: A Historical Journey
It was a scorching summer day in 1955 when Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white person. Her simple act of defiance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, which lasted for 381 days and changed the course of history. Segregation, the systematic…