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" Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. "

Douglas Brinkley

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" Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience. "

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" For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience. "

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" Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money. "

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" I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks. "

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" Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs. "

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