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Article: CIVIL RIGHTS LEGEND ROSA PARKS PAYS VISIT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 11, 1996
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Rosa Parks showed a group of schoolchildren yesterday that a legend need not be big or brawny. Just committed.
``I thought she was really great,'' said Kelly Ward, a Garfield High School student. ``She's like a grandmother.''
Parks came to Seattle as part of her 40-city tour to mark the 40th anniversary of the bus boycott by black residents of Montgomery, Ala., that she began by refusing to give up her seat to a white person. She reminded reporters and several students that the struggle in which she fought produced great gains but has yet to end.
``Things have changed a great deal from the time I was a young person in the South. Everything was ...