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Rosa Parks was an African-American woman. She was tired and refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man, on December 1, 1955. Her refusal that day started a huge agitation against the unequal ways in which African-American were treated. This came, later on to be known as the Civil Rights Movements. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, religion or national origin. It also stated that all schools would be open to African-American children and that they would no longer have to attend separate schools specially set up for them. Despite this, a majority of African- Americans continue to be among the poorest in the country.
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