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U.S. civil rights activist. Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress in Montgomery, Ala., where she joined the NAACP in 1943. In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give her seat on a public bus to a white man. The resulting boycott of the city's bus system, organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, brought the civil rights movement to new prominence.

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Major League Baseball Player. Jackie Robinson was the first black player in the major leagues. He became an outstanding performer in several sports at Pasadena Junior College and UCLA before leaving college to help his mother care for the family. He served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in World War II.

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U.S. abolitionist. Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman escaped to the North by the Underground Railroad in 1849. She made frequent trips into the South to lead over 300 slaves to freedom, despite large rewards offered for her arrest. Known as the “Moses of her people,” Tubman was admired by abolitionists such as John Brown, who called her General Tubman.

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