with Rosa Parks .
called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white gentleman on the bus-- the very event that triggered the entire civil rights
and Rosa Parks should be taught as examples of Americans who fought for equality.
And that moment with Rosa Parks not getting up is just the moment.
The action of Rosa Parks , the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me to find a way to get in the way to get in, what I called, good trouble,
We had CSA drop-offs on Rosa Parks , and we fed shelters and firehouses, and so very much still, hitting the city with our food twice a week.
But one day I heard about Rosa Parks , 15 years old in the 10th grade.
What I think is interesting about Rosa Parks , and the very famous story that she is so well known for, is that she wasn't growing up at all likely,
It's very upsetting that people think that Rosa Parks just sat down on a chair.
And I know you were saying that you share that birthday with Rosa Parks , which is pretty phenomenal.
But oftentimes, people have a strategy-- like Rosa Parks .
And I can only imagine, when people like Rosa Parks are being dragged off of buses, that they probably didn't know when or if they would
Now, everyone's laughing a bunch, shouting stuff like Rosa Parks hadn't died.
So I think we should look at revolutionaries or radicals not just as those who are the Rosa Parks , who with one defiant act
Because Martin Luther King had a dream, JFK, Rosa Parks -- it all starts with a dream.
Often Black History Month comes along in February, we always hear about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr, and certain other historical figures.
But we felt like it was important not to make this into like a MLK, Rosa Parks situation, where there's one messiah figure.
every event I say to a group of people who are predominantly white raise your hand if you know who Rosa Parks is and you know everyone raises their hand and
If I happened to sit in the back in the bus, they'd be like, ha ha ha, Rosa Parks .
But I went and did some more learning about it, and I'm wondering if we can talk again about how we understand Rosa Parks .
much more comfortable to talk about Mohammed Ali, even talk about my collects or to talk about Rosa Parks about probably a joke.
And it's the story of what happened in Montgomery, Alabama, after Rosa Parks .
two weeks later, in the city of Richmond, riding in the front of the bus 10 years before Rosa Parks would refuse to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
And a young lawyer-- I'd never seen a lawyer before-- a young man by the name of Fred Gray, who had been a lawyer for Rosa Parks ,
When I think about that, it makes me think of an absolutely classic example of everything we're talking about, in the embodiment of Rosa Parks .
Like, when Rosa Parks was out
I don't think it's, you know, something that we need to leave to the Mandela's and Rosa Parks and Gandhis of this world.
It includes not only the role and contributions of people like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, W. E. B. DuBois, Rosa Parks , Jimmy Lee Jackson, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou