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📚 How Saying No Changed America
Lesson Plan #20

Happy Monday morning!
Most people know Rosa Parks for her courageous act of defiance on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus. But what happened next is even bigger. As Black History Month continues, we celebrate the story of how saying no changed America forever.
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