Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Check out these INSPIRING Rosa Parks books Reelin’ In The Years Productions has available for licensing over 30,000 hours of music footage spanning 90 years. Additionally, we have more than 8,000 hour Interview with Rosa Parks conducted for Eyes on the Prize I. Discussion centers on life in Montgomery, her decision to refuse to comply with segregation on the bus line, and the bus boycott. Subject: Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005; Nixon, Edgar Daniel; Till, Emmett, 1941-1955; NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations Rosa Parks discusses her refusal to give up her seat to a white man & the resulting bus boycott in Montgomery, AL. April 1956 interview Interview with Rosa Parks, conducted by Blackside, Inc. in 1985, for "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965)." Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection. C-SPAN interview with Rosa Parks. Global Search Search In. Quick Guide. Search. User Created Clips from This Video. April 30, 1995 User Clip: Rosa Parks Discusses Her Book Quiet Strength. #OnThisDay 1913: Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. The civil rights movement activist was interviewed for the Man Alive programme - Deep South, Deep North: Twenty Years On, back in 1974, recounting the events of that momentous day in Montgomery, Alabama. An interview with Rosa Parks from December 1, 1980. Interview by Jack Willis for his never completed documentary on the Civil Rights Movement. We go back to 1956 in the midst of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to one of the earliest preserved interviews with Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks , interviewed in April 1956 by Pacifica radio station KPFA . A 1956 interview with Rosa Parks, four months after she famously refused to move to the back of the bus. Archive Footage - Black & White - Interview of Rosa Parks during the Public Transportation boycott.For this and more footage visit: Former CNN host Larry King talks to Rosa Parks about her famous refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.For more CNN videos on YouTube, check out Rosa Parks: Well, the first meeting was not at the Baptist Church. The first meeting we had was at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King's church where he was pastoring. That was — on Friday evening. INTERVIEWER: I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BIG MEETING AT THE — Rosa Parks: Oh, the big meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church. Rosa Parks discusses her book, “Rosa Parks: My Story.” Parks talks about her grandparents and her mother who was a teacher. She goes on to discuss her involvement in the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), trying to register people to vote, the Montgomery, Alabama bus incident, and the Montgomery Improvement Association. Parks also talks about the Rosa and On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.The repercussions were swift.The ar Interview with Rosa Parks conducted in 1985 for Eyes on the Prize. Parks discusses discusses life in Montgomery, Alabama, her decision to refuse to comply with segregation on the bus line, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This interview discusses the Montgomery Bus Boycott. "The Rosa Parks Story" is a 2002 American television movie directed by Julie Dash and written by Paris Qualles. The film stars Angela Bassett as Rosa Parks, with notable performances from Peter Francis James as Raymond Parks and Cicely Tyson as Rosa's mother, Leona McCauley. It aired on CBS on February 24, 2002, and received critical acclaim for its portrayal of the civil rights icon. Plot On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement. Interview with Rosa Parks Digital History ID 1142. Date:1995. Annotation: It was the symbolic beginning of the modern Civil Rights movement. Rosa Parks, an Alabama seamstress, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man. On December 1, 1955, a tired Rosa Parks left work as a department store tailor’s assistant and planned to ride home on a city bus. She sat down between the “whites only” section in the front of the bus and the “colored” section in the back.
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