Craig became a basketball star at a parochial school, while Michelle rode the bus, and then the El, to attend classes at Whitney M.

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Fifty-eight years after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks became the first African-American woman to be honored with a full length statue in National Statuary Hall.

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So the space shuttle became essentially a cargo vehicle, instead of a space bus.

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