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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Remembering Rosa Parks

Quote of the Day: Coretta Scott King

"Surely Mrs. Rosa Parks was sent to us by God, because few among us were so well prepared to play such a momentous role in history."

-- Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on the Monday death of Rosa Parks, a woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus launched the civil rights movement. Mrs. King was quoted by The Birmingham News

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