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APNewsBreak: Rosa Parks essay reveals rape attempt (AP)

In this July 25, 2011 photo, the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to Rosa Parks by President Bill Clinton on Sept. 9, 1996, its certificate, and the dress she wore for the occasion, are shown in this is photo at Guernsey's auction house, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the "mother of the civil rights movement," she wrote a detailed and harrowing account of nearly being raped by a white neighbor who employed her as a housekeeper in 1931.

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