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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1955
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested. Her quiet act of resistance set off a yearlong boycott and helped put the American civil rights movement in motion.
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