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

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“According to McGuire, Parks and Nixon’s work “paid off” when the Pittsburgh Courier ran an exposé on the case in their October 28, 1944, issue.”
- @JeanneTheoharis

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“At an emergency meeting in the Hotel Theresa in Harlem on Nov. 25, 1944, the Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor, which Mrs. Parks had helped organize, became a national organization.”
- @sewellchan | @nytimes
nytimes.com/2017/12/29/obi…
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Oct 21
“Traveling throughout the state, Rosa Parks sought to document instances of white-on-Black brutality in hopes of pursuing legal justice. ‘Rosa will talk with you’ became the understanding throughout Alabama’s Black communities.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
“This work was tiring, and at times demoralizing because most of the cases Parks documented went nowhere.“
- @JeanneTheoharis

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“She 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.”
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Oct 21
🔥🔥🔥🔥STREAMING NOW ON @peacock!!!

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

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Oct 20
“To the end of her life, Parks believed the struggle for racial justice was not over and she continued to press for more change in the United States.”
-@JeanneTheoharis

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Oct 20
“But the fourth panelist… Nipsey Russell, who is Black, said he would have to disqualify himself because he marched with Parks in Selma, adding: ‘Miss Rosa Parks is 10-foot tall, she’s a legend and a hero in the democracy of the United States, not just among Black people.’”
“In 1980, three bespectacled African American women appeared on the show, each stating: ‘My name is Rosa Parks.’ Only one of the three voting panelists correctly identified her – today their musings look demeaning and trivial.”
- @SmithInAmerica

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Oct 20
“In 1980, three bespectacled African American women appeared on the show, each stating: ‘My name is Rosa Parks.’ Only one of the three voting panelists correctly identified her – today their musings look demeaning and trivial.”
- @SmithInAmerica
theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/…
“But the fourth panelist… Nipsey Russell, who is Black, said he would have to disqualify himself because he marched with Parks in Selma, adding: ‘Miss Rosa Parks is 10-foot tall, she’s a legend and a hero in the democracy of the United States, not just among Black people.’”
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Oct 20
🔥🔥🔥🔥STREAMING NOW ON @peacock!!!

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

“THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS”

#TheRebelliousLifeOfMrsRosaParks

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