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Roundup

3-28-06

Ala. Debates Posthumous Pardon for Rosa Parks [4min]

Some Alabama state legislators want to pardon civil rights icon Rosa Parks for the 1955 arrest that triggered the Montgomery bus boycott. But others in the capital of Montgomery oppose the move, saying a pardon would imply that Parks did something wrong in the first place. Steve Chiotakis of member station WBHM in Alabama reports.

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