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Whats a good title for my rosa parks project yahoo. Rosa parks has 12 books on goodreads with 10366 ratings. By age 30, he was internationally famous for call of the wild 1903, the sea wolf. The books of jack london jack london state historic park. Rosa parks by eloise greenfield goodreads share book. In 1943 parks became a member of the montgomery chapter of the national association for the advancement of colored people naacp, and she served as its secretary until 1956.
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