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other hand, “may wish to adopt a morereserved, quiet style,” Grant writes.<strong>The</strong>y may want to learn to sit down sothat others might stand up.Which is just what a woman namedRosa Parks did naturally.179/929For years before the day <strong>in</strong> December1955 when Rosa Parks refused to giveup her seat on a Montgomery bus, sheworked beh<strong>in</strong>d the scenes for theNAACP, even receiv<strong>in</strong>g tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> nonviolentresistance. Many th<strong>in</strong>gs had <strong>in</strong>spiredher political <strong>com</strong>mitment. <strong>The</strong>time the Ku Klux Klan marched <strong>in</strong> front<strong>of</strong> her childhood house. <strong>The</strong> time herbrother, a private <strong>in</strong> the U.S. Armywho’d saved the lives <strong>of</strong> white soldiers,came home from <strong>World</strong> War II only to

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