Barbie To Create Rosa Parks Doll

Barbie is adding two inspiring women to their collection - civil rights activist Rosa Parks and the first US woman to fly in space, Sally Ride.

Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and move to the back of a bus on December 1st, 1955.

This became the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the US.

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Hailed as 'the Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement', she earned worldwide recognition and numerous awards including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal of Honour.

While Sally Ride's love of learning and science motivated her to study physics in college.

While she was finishing her Ph.D., she responded to an article in the student newspaper announcing that NASA was recruiting women into the astronaut programme.

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Out of more than 8,000 applicants, she was one of six women accepted.

On June 18th 1983, she blasted off aboard space shuttle Challenger - to become the first American woman, and the youngest American, to fly in space.