Hillary Clinton Honors Rosa Parks at Memorial Service in Alabama

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Hillary Clinton paid her respects to Rosa Parks early Tuesday afternoon during a visit to Montgomery, Alabama. The visit comes as Clinton is attempting to consolidate her support among African-American voters heading into the early primaries, when she hopes to wrap up the Democratic nomination before challenger Bernie Sanders can gain momentum.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, an act of defiance that became a symbol for the civil rights movement.






During her remarks, the former secretary of state called for an end to mass incarceration in America, an issue that her former boss President Barack Obama has taken up near the end of his second term by commuting prison sentences for some drug offenders and pressing Congress to pass criminal justice reform.









"Right now, an estimated 1.5 million black men are missing from their families and communities because of incarceration and premature death," Clinton said, according to the Associated Press.



http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-rosa-parks-anniversary-speech-church-alabama-400037

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3. Great pic of Hillary and Fred Gray.. and Rosa and Hillary.. thank you, DSB!

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