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Booker T. Washington lived from 1856 to 1915. He was head of the Tuskegee Institute, a teachers' college for African Americans. Rosa Parks lived from 1913 - 2005. She inspired the revolutionary bus boycott in Birmingham Alabama. It is unlikely that they ever met. Rosa Parks attended rural schools in Pine Level, Alabama until the age of eleven. She enrolled at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery where she took academic and vocational courses. She also attended a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes but was forced to drop out to care for her grandmother when she became ill. In 1955, a colleague of Rosa Parks, as arrested for violating bus segregation laws. Her name was Claudette Colvin, and she was a 15-year old student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama.

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