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Monday, January 11, 2010

Martin Luther King Jr. | 1956-62

Rosa Parks sits in the front of a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 21, 1956, the day a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation of the city's public transit vehicles went into effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested and jailed for refusing to give up her seat in a crowded bus.