We still have a long way to go, we still have many obstacles and many challenges to face. It’s far from perfect, and it may never be, but I think as long as we do the best we can to improve conditions, then people will be benefited.
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Rosa Parks
Civil-rights activist
United States · 1913–2005
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American civil-rights activist whose refusal in December 1955 to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus triggered the Montgomery bus boycott. She had been secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and remained an activist and organiser for the rest of her life.
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We work with young people, from the ages of 11 to 17. Our main program is the Pathways to Freedom. And we’ll be going from Memphis, Tennessee through ten other states, and Washington, DC, and to Canada. It began July 13th and ends August 8th. We hope to take as many young people and their chaperons as possible throughout these areas, and stop and have workshops and programs. They’ll be traveling in buses, and we hope that will inspire and give them a sense of history and also to encourage them to be concerned about their self and history and motivated to reach their highest potential.
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