Kingdoms have been lost for want of nails, shoes and horses, but it was not, as legend now has it, a pair of sore feet that spurred the U.S. civil rights movement 24 years ago. Who should know better than Rosa Parks, 64. In December 1955 Parks was a tired Montgomery, Ala., domestic who refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man. Her arrest spurred black civil disobedience that helped wipe out segregation laws. Honored last week with a Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, Parks joined hands with...
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