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Obama praises Rosa Parks at statue unveiling in Capitol

WASHINGTON -- President Obama paid tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks on Wednesday, comparing the Jim Crow-era tolerance of segregation to the acceptance of inequality that persists into the present day.

By Christi Parsons

February 27, 2013

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