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ā€œTraveling throughout the state, Rosa Parks sought to document instances of white-on-Black brutality in hopes of pursuing legal justice. ā€˜Rosa will talk with youā€™ became the understanding throughout Alabamaā€™s Black communities.ā€
- @JeanneTheoharis
ā€œThis work was tiring, and at times demoralizing because most of the cases Parks documented went nowhere.ā€œ
- @JeanneTheoharis

ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

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ā€œShe issued press releases to the Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal. She forwarded dozens of reports to the NAACP national office documenting suspicious deaths, rapes of Black women by white men, instances of voter intimidation, and other incidents of racial injustice.ā€
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CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FULL DOCUMENTARY DONE ON ROSA PARKS?

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CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FULL DOCUMENTARY DONE ON ROSA PARKS?

ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

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CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FULL DOCUMENTARY DONE ON ROSA PARKS?

ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

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ā€œAfter a twenty-four-year-old Black woman was gang raped by six white men at gunpoint near Abbeville, Alabama, in 1944ā€”and authorities made no move to look into the crimeā€”theā€¦NAACP sent Parks one hundred miles south to assist.ā€
- @JeanneTheoharis

ā€œAlong with Nixon, Rufus Lewis, and others, Parks worked to draw attention to the case with the Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor.ā€
- @JeanneTheoharis

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ā€œAccording to McGuire, Parks and Nixonā€™s work ā€œpaid offā€ when the Pittsburgh Courier ran an exposĆ© on the case in their October 28, 1944, issue.ā€
- @JeanneTheoharis

ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

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CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FULL DOCUMENTARY DONE ON ROSA PARKS?

ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

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ā€œAfter a twenty-four-year-old Black woman was gang raped by six white men at gunpoint near Abbeville, Alabama, in 1944ā€”and authorities made no move to look into the crimeā€”theā€¦NAACP sent Parks one hundred miles south to assist.ā€
- @JeanneTheoharis
ā€œAlong with Nixon, Rufus Lewis, and others, Parks worked to draw attention to the case with the Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor.ā€
- @JeanneTheoharis

#TheRebelliousLifeOfMrsRosaParks

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ā€œAccording to McGuire, Parks and Nixonā€™s work ā€œpaid offā€ when the Pittsburgh Courier ran an exposĆ© on the case in their October 28, 1944, issue.ā€
- @JeanneTheoharis

#TheRebelliousLifeOfMrsRosaParks

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Iā€™M SHOUTING BECAUSE ITā€™S IMPORTANT!! šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„

CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FULL DOCUMENTARY DONE ON ROSA PARKS?

ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

#TheRebelliousLifeOfMrsRosaParks

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Iā€™M SHOUTING BECAUSE ITā€™S IMPORTANT!! šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„

CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FULL DOCUMENTARY DONE ON ROSA PARKS?

ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

#TheRebelliousLifeOfMrsRosaParks

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ā€œPeople always say that I didnā€™t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isnā€™t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. . . . No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.ā€
- Rosa Parks
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ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

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CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FULL DOCUMENTARY DONE ON ROSA PARKS?

ā€œTHE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKSā€

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ā€œOne of the greatest distortions of the Parks fable has been the ways it made her meek and missed her lifetime of progressive politics and the resolute political sensibility that identified Malcolm X as her personal hero.ā€
- @JeanneTheoharis

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