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To Reverend Braxton, family, friends, admirers, and this amazing choir: I -- I feel it an honor to be here to come and say a final goodbye. 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.
21 mar 2017 · Speech at the Alabama Freedom March - March 25, 1965. Rosa Parks. March 25, 1965— Montgomery, Alabama. Print friendly. Speeches. 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 ...
21 sty 2024 · Here, we explore 20 of Rosa Parks’ most potent quotes, each a beacon illuminating the path towards a more just and equitable world: 1. “Our Freedom is Threatened Every Time One of Our Young eople is Killed by Another Child…
29 lis 2023 · 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.
Rosa Parks’ Eulogy. Presented by Oprah Winfrey. Reverend Braxton, family, friends, admirers, and this amazing choir: I feel it an honor to be here to come and say a final goodbye. 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.
9 lis 2009 · 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.
20 paź 2024 · Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement. Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights movement.’