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TIL Robert Samuel a professional “stander” earns up to $US1,000 a week by standing in line for people

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jpJQ TIL that 71 years before Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat on a train and was thrown off by a group of white men. She later cofounded the NAACP but was kept off the list of founders by W.E.B. Du Bois.
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