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, or just inventing better ways to brush your hair. Here are some of the Black women whose advancements transformed U.S. history.Mary McLeod Bethune knew that education was key, but she also knew it was difficult for young Black children to achieve, particularly in the segregated South.
Though we’ve all heard the story of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, most of us don't know that — nine months before Parks did. She was only 15 at the time, and was one of the first Black activists to openly challenge the law. As she toldin a 2017 interview, “The whole movement was about young people saying we want more from America.”
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