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Rosa Parks became an icon of the modern Civil Rights movement for refusing to give up her Montgomery, Alabama, bus seat to a white passenger in December 1955. That defiant act fueled the movement that ended legal segregation in America.Because her notoriety…
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Henry Ford transformed America by creating "a motor car for the great multitude." Always interested in tinkering with machinery than in working on his parents' Dearborn farm. Ford gravitated toward the young auto industry in the 1890's.The Model T…
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Considered "The First Lady of the Press," former White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas is a trailblazer who broke through barriers for women reporters. Thomas worked for United Press International for more than 55 years covering every president si…
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Known as the "Mother" of Michigan State Parks system. Genevieve Gillette is remembered as one of the state's most effective conservation lobbyists. In 1920, she was the only woman in the first landscape architecture class to graduate from Michigan…