Crime History: Civil rights icon

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On this day, Aug. 30, 1994, Rosa Parks, who helped touch off the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., 40 years earlier, was robbed and beaten.

The attack sparked outrage throughout the United States.

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