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Women’s History Month profiles: Claudette Colvin

The name of Rosa Parks is known wherever the American civil rights struggles of the sixties is retold. But who has heard of Claudette Colvin? Nine months before Rosa Park, Claudette Colvin also refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Women’s History Month Profiles: Margaret Bondfield

Margaret Bondfield (1873-53) was the first female member of cabinet, and among the first women MPs not come either from an aristocratic background or 'take over' her seat from her husband, being elected with the first generation of women Labour MPs.

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