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This is a daily series by Jerry Mitchell of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today recounting historic moments in Civil Rights history.

On this day in 1955

On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, because she was “tired of giving in.”




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