“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
“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.”
“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
“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
“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.’”
“Conyers, Dick Gregory, and Rosa Parks all were supporters of reparations. By the late 1980s, calls for reparations had coalesced into the founding of N’COBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
“According to its founding statements, three centuries of chattel slavery and another century of government-sanctioned segregation and inequality meant both the American government and businesses owed Black people reparations.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
“In 1994, N’COBRA held its annual meeting in Detroit. Both Rosa Parks and Jesse Jackson attended, Parks sitting in the front row next to Queen Mother Moore.”