Fifty years ago this December, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus she was riding. Because she wouldn’t, the whole country has changed. But what happened to the bus?
An ambitious young magazine editor and a tormented photographer together discovered a Marilyn Monroe who nobody knew.
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