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Rosa Parks. Speech at the Alabama Freedom March - March 25, 1965. Rosa Parks. March 25, 1965— Montgomery, Alabama. Print friendly. Rosa Parks! Hello! 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. The Civil Rights Movement aimed its efforts toward changing the laws in Montgomery, Alabama and in 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. It connects Rosa Parks’s actions to current social justice movements. Ideal for civil rights anniversaries, leadership conferences, and educational events. #3 A Legacy That Lives On. Honored guests and fellow citizens, today we celebrate the enduring legacy of Rosa Parks, a woman whose quiet strength changed America. Rosa Parks Speech Rosa Louise McCauley Parks born 4th of February 1913 in Alabama and sadly passed away on October 24th 2005 at the age of 92. Within her lifetime she gained civil rights for African Americans, with the help of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights participants. Rosa Parks, a woman that changed a nation. 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. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to the crowd (Full Text) Head Note: At this Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) weekly meeting, King speaks to the crowd. Democracy gives us this right to protest and that is all we're doing. We have never and never intended to practice violence. There was no evidence in the court that we had. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words. Adrienne Cannon. Andrea Lewis. Valerie Kinloch . Stacie Moats . smoats@loc.gov Early Childhood Incidents and Experiences, ca. 1955-1958. Autograph manuscript. Rosa Parks Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. (Rosa Parks recounts the desertion of her father, James McCauley, and growing up in rural Pine Level, Alabama on the farm of maternal grandparents, Sylvester and Rosa Edwards, with her mother and brother, Leona and Sylvester McCauley.) 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. Annotation: This speech was delivered four days after the arrest of Rosa Parks. It was given at the First Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Mass Meeting, held at Holt Street Baptist Church December 5, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. The Montgomery Bus Boycott speech reprinted below is one of the first major addresses of Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King spoke to nearly 5,000 people at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery on December 5, 1955, just four days after Mrs. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery city bus. 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 th Oprah Winfrey. Eulogy for Rosa Parks "God uses good people to do great things." delivered 31 October 2005, Metropolitan AME Church, Washington D.C. 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. At the age of 86, Rosa Parks' courage and fortitude was recognized by President Bill Clinton, who awarded her the nation's highest honor for a civilian -- the Congressional Gold Medal. As we honor the life of Rosa Parks, we should not limit our commemoration to lofty eulogies. This speech was given in Montgomery, AL on December 5, 1955 Rosa Parks, secretary of the Montgomery, AL, chapter of the NAACP, was arrested on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person. Black community leaders responded by forming the Montgomery Improvement Association on December 5, 1955. Senator Barack Obama gave a speech honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks after her death. He summarized her life experiences facing racism and her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her solitary act of refusing to give up her bus seat for a white passenger sparked the boycott and helped launch the civil rights movement. Obama urged honoring her legacy through continued activism “President Obama gave a speech in 2013 to dedicate a new statue honoring Rosa Parks, who was an American civil rights activist.” • “In 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her bus seat; 58 years later, President Obama gave a speech to commemorate a statue of Parks in the Capitol Building.” On 1955 Dec. 1 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., municipal bus to a white person. As a result the black citizens of Montgomery chose to boycott the city's bus system in hope that they could force the bus company and the city to adopt changes to the segregated seating policies.
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