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February 04
February 04, 1913
Civil rights organizer Rosa Parks born in Alabama
Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Long before the 1955 Montgomery bus protest she was a trained NAACP investigator who took the testimony of Recy Taylor and other Black women survivors of white violence in the rural South.
February 04, 1974
Patty Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
Patty Hearst
Released
Patricia Campbell Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment on February 4, 1974 by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. She wa...
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Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Within months she joined the group, taking the name "Tania," and participated in armed actions. Convicted in 1976, sentenced to 7 years; sentence later commuted by Carter and pardoned by Clinton.