"Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March." PennState University Libraries. Previously found at abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/march-25-1965-rosa-parks-montgomery-13021734. These five speeches capture different aspects of Rosa Parks’s legacy. Each one brings forward her strength, dignity, and lasting influence on American society. Keep reading to discover how her story can be told through various speaking approaches, from concise tributes to detailed narratives that show the depth of her impact. In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama in poverty and ill health — both brought on by the severe repercussions she faced following her 1955 bus stance — and had been living in Detroit for eight years. Delivered by Rosa Louise Parks “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement” May 20. 1989 Thank you so very much, President Stein, for that wonderful Introduction, and to the Board of Control, faculty, friends, parents, and graduates of this great Michigan Technological University. I'm very happy to be here. Rosa Parks was very inspiring, not only because of the bus boycott in 1955, but because of her many speeches against racism and the Jim Crow Laws in 1966 and 1967. Firstly Rosa Parks gave many speeches that inspired thousands of people. My name is Rosa Parks and I was an important and influential American. You should know about me because I did not give up my seat on a bus to a white man. My action helped to start the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks's refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955 changed America and redirected the course of history. Here she is seen giving a speech in Selma, Alabama, circa 1965, at the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. In a speech in Los Angeles a few months after her bus stand, Parks stressed the solitary nature of the protest, which she saw following from the preceding years of relatively lonely activism. Three hundred and eighty-five days after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, the boycott ended. Black men and women and children re-boarded the buses of Montgomery, newly desegregated, and sat in whatever seat happen to be open. I grew up in the South, and Rosa Parks was a hero to me long before I recognized and understood the power and impact that her life embodied. I remember my father telling me about this colored woman who had refused to give up her seat. And in my child's mind, I thought, "She must be really big." Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions B. According to one of her friends, "Nobody ever bossed Rosa around and got away with it." C. When the bus driver threatened to have Rosa Parks arrested, she did not resist arrest. D. Rosa Parks fought for voting rights and rallied against discrimination in the criminal justice system. 4. The Courage to Take Action: A Lesson from Rosa Parks The Courage to Take Action: A Lesson from Rosa Parks Speech by President Obama at Dedication of Statue Honoring Rosa Parks at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Mr. Speaker, Leader Reid, Leader McConnell, Leader Pelosi, Assistant Leader Clyburn; to the friends and family of Rosa Parks; to the distinguished guests who are gathered Rosa Parks: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks is remembered most for kicking off the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. She was also an active member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) who had actively worked for equality more than a decade prior to the boycott and for the rest of her life following it. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. The following speech was delivered at the Weusi Umoja Social at OSCI — August 22, 2018. Good evening. I hope everyone is enjoying their time tonight with their friends and family. As it was just mentioned, this year we chose to honor Rosa Parks. The actual bus on which Rosa Parks sat was made available for the public to board and sit in the seat that Rosa Parks refused to give up. [ 153 ] On February 4, 2,000 birthday wishes gathered from people throughout the United States were transformed into 200 graphics messages at a celebration held on her 100th Birthday at the Davis Theater for Parks followed and occasionally participated in the RNA’s activities and was called on for help at key moments. By most accounts, Parks did not attend the RNA’s second annual convention on March 29, 1969, which resulted in a historic confrontation between black radicals and the Detroit police. Gwen Ifill talks with biographer Jeanne Theoharis, whose book "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" offers a complex portrait of the woman best known for refusing to give up her seat on an Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Her courageous act is now American legend. She is a staple of elementary school curricula and was the second
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