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The Moral Courage of Rosa Parks
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The Moral Courage of Rosa Parks

By Jon Hersey

Nov 29, 2018
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The Union victory in the American Civil War put an end to slavery in the United States, but in the decades that followed, white southern Democrats established Jim Crow laws that legally mandated racial segregation throughout much of what had been the Confederacy.1 In most of the southern (and western) United States, it was illegal for black people and wh…

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