Benjamin Hooks was born in 1925 in Memphis,Tennessee - a city,like most in the racially- segregated American South at the time, that discriminated against African-Americans in all areas of public life.

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Fadela Amara, the government minister for cities, who is of Muslim origin and a feminist, called segregated swims a sop to fundamentalism.

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She is a single mother named Danyelle America, who runs a small business in an abandoned trailer in Columbia, South Carolina -- a city that still looked pretty segregated to a casual visitor's eyes.

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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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