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Clara Belle Williams Franklin 1856 - 1945  Rosa Parks On
December 1, 1955, a 42-year-old seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, was
ordered by the bus driver to give up her seat on a city bus to a white
person. Rosa Parks quietly declined to comply. The events
that ensued would lead eventually to her being called the "first lady
of civil rights" and the "mother of the freedom movement." Rosa
Parks did not know then, and it may be that she never knew it, but her
act of heroism fell on the tenth anniversary of the death of Clara
Williams Franklin, who as a 19-year-old barber's daughter in Denison,
Texas, had stood up to the railroad conductor more than 80 years before
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