“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
“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/…
“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
“Sickened by the detailed description of Till’s murder, she continued to think about this gruesome killing in the days after the meeting.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
“THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS”
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Oct 20, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
“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
“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
“The depth of racial injustice in the North combined with the feign of Northern innocence proved frustrating for the ‘mother of the movement.’ Parks continued to receive hate mail and menacing phone calls well into the 1970s in Detroit.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
“She and King were called Communists, not only for their work in the South but also for their support of open housing and desegregated schools in the North.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
“THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS”
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Oct 19, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’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.”
- Rosa Parks
