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. 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. This is a great place for technological advancement, but we do need to go back to what we've always thought of as the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." I also feel that if we would think in terms of giving our very best-every day of our lives-of what we can do to Speech at the Alabama Freedom March - March 25, 1965 Rosa Parks March 25, 1965— Montgomery, Alabama SPEECH Rev. Abernathy and all the distinguished leaders of this nation and all of you wonderful Thank you and many things I could say but I will not for lack of time because we must hear Dr. King, our leader. "Speeches on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol at the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March." PennState University Libraries. Parks lead to the US supreme court making the decision outlawing segregation on city buses. The boycott also raised national awareness of a Minister named Martin Luther King Junior. Eulogy for Rosa Parks "God uses good people to do great things." delivered 31 October 2005, Metropolitan AME Church, Washington D.C. 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. Rosa Parks says in the video she was happy up to the age of seven. Why was her early childhood a happy one? In what ways were black Americans treated differently to white Americans in Rosa Mr. President, today the nation mourns a genuine American hero. As most of you know, Rosa Parks died yesterday in her home in Detroit. Through her courage, and by her example, Rosa Parks helped lay the foundation for a country that could begin to live up to its creed. 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 Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956 (Wikimedia Commons)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. Biographer Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, describes in this article written for the Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 4 no. 2 (March-April 2015):16-18, the recently acquired Rosa Parks Papers and how they shed new light on Parks and her activism. 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. Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the Speech at the Alabama Freedom March March 25, 1965— Montgomery, Alabama SPEECH Rev. Abernathy and all the distinguished leaders of this nation and all of you wonderful Freedom Fighters, my brothers and sisters and my children – because I have been called the mother of this – you see before you now a victim of all that has been perpetrated against one to make us less than human. Montgomery’s boycott was not entirely spontaneous, and Rosa Parks and other activists had prepared to challenge segregation long in advance. On December 1, 1955, a tired Rosa L. Parks left the department store where she worked as a tailor’s assistant and boarded a crowded city bus for the ride home. 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. Rosa Parks, left, and Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, at an award ceremony in 1965Image: AP Photo/picture alliance On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked as a seamstress in a In the 1950s, Rosa Parks gave the US Civil Rights Movement a huge boost, and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. where King held his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in front of more than 200,000
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