Guest Column: Heroes Like King, Rosa Parks Changed Our Nation Forever

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. often commented that the success of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was made possible by the zeitgeist - a German word meaning "the spirit of the times."

In 1955, An African-American woman named Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, sparked a civil rights revolution that changed the nation. The movement altered the zeitgeist and was felt around the world.

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Guest Column: Heroes Like King, Rosa Parks Changed Our Nation Forever

I first met Mrs. Parks in Annapolis in 1984. An organization I had founded, the Anne Arundel Coalition of Tenants, had her speak at a Black History Program on Feb. 19, 1984, at the First Baptist Church...

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