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On this day (Dec 1) in 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus she was riding. Rosa Parks' arrest and subsequent trial in Montgomery, Alabama and the 381 day successful Montgomery Bus boycott calling to end bus segregation in recognition of that trial introduced many people to the young reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and the beginning of the modern Civil Rights movement. http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/RosaParks.htm

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Although The National Archives has temporarily shut its doors, it has made millions of digital records free to download. Here Sarah Williams reveals what’s on offer and how family historians everywhere can benefit

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It may sound like a story fresh from the pages of _Harry Potter_, but the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk was actually established under Winston Churchill. For 60 years, the UFO desk collected and archived witness accounts of unlikely airborne objects from members of the public.

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