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showcases historic properties that illustrate contributions of women to our nation's history. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eleanor Ford, Amelia Earhart, Mary McLeod Bethune, and are among those featured. (National Park Service)
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, refused to move to the back of the bus as required by law. She sparked a 381-day bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., that led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. |
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Amelia Earhart's accomplishments |
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