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Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Montgomry bus boycott
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When was rosa parks born?

February 4, 1913

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when was Harriet tubman born?

March 1822

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What did the Montgomery Bus Boycott do?

Lasting 381 days, the Montgomery Bus Boycott resulted in the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional. A significant play towards civil rights and transit equity, the Montgomery Bus Boycott helped eliminate early barriers to transportation access.

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What is the Underground Railroad and how did it work?

The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. It developed as a convergence of several different clandestine efforts.

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when did rosa parks die?

October 24, 2005

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when did Harriet tubman die?

March 10, 1913 (aged 90–91) Auburn, New York, U.S.

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Who actually started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Narration: In Robinson's 1987 memoir, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who Started It, Robinson writes about how it was actually a group of women — the Women's Political Council, of which she was president


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Who started the Underground Railroad and why?

Anti-slavery sentiment was particularly prominent in Philadelphia, where Isaac Hopper, a convert to Quakerism, established what one author called “the first operating cell of the abolitionist underground.


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What was rosa parks be known for? 

bus boycott

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What was Harriet Tubman best known for.

The Underground Railroad.

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What did Rosa Parks do after the bus boycott?

After the boycott, Parks and her husband moved to Hampton, Virginia and later permanently settled in Detroit, Michigan. Parks work proved to be invaluable in Detroit's Civil Rights Movement. She was an active member of several organizations which worked to end inequality in the city.

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How long did the Underground Railroad last?




Established in the early 1800s and aided by people involved in the Abolitionist Movement, the underground railroad helped thousands of slaves escape bondage. By one estimate, 100,000 slaves escaped from bondage in the South between 1810 and 1850.


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what are rosa parks parnets names.

Her dad was James and her mom was Leona.

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what are Harriet Tubman's parents name's?

Harriet Greene ross was her mom and her dad's name is Ben ross.

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Was the Montgomery Bus Boycott a peaceful protest?




The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a peaceful protest of segregated buses in Montgomery Alabama, 1955. After Rosa Parks was arrested on December first for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, many black Americans were furious, and decided to take action.


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How did slaves know where to go in the Underground Railroad?




The free individuals who helped runaway slaves travel toward freedom were called conductors, and the fugitive slaves were referred to as cargo. The safe houses used as hiding places along the lines of the Underground Railroad were called stations. A lit lantern hung outside would identify these stations.


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What was Rosa Parks famous quote?



“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…so other people would also be free.” “I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.”


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How many siblings did Harriet Tubman have?

She was a sister to four brothers and four sisters

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Why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on the bus?





Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement, made the decision to remain in her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus because she didn't believe she should have to move because of her race, even though that was the law. In the middle of the crowded bus, Parks was arrested for her refusal to relinquish her seat on Dec.


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Who was the most famous member of the Underground Railroad?

Our Headlines and Heroes blog takes a look at Harriet Tubman as the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. Tubman and those she helped escape from slavery headed north to freedom, sometimes across the border to Canada.