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Which civil rights leader was a contemporary of Austin?

  • Sojourner Truth

  • Rosa Parks

  • Frederick Douglass

  • Harriet Tubman

Answer

Austin and Rosa Parks were both civil rights leaders who were active in the 1950s and 1960s. Austin was a member of the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and he was involved in the Montgomery bus boycott and the Selma to Montgomery marches. Parks was a key figure in the Montgomery bus boycott, and she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
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