• 3 days ago
Sixty-five years ago today, she refused to give up her bus seat and changed the course of history ...

This is the story of Rosa Parks.
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00:00We hope to achieve equal rights for any human being.
00:21Rosa Parks tells us there's always something we can do.
00:30We hope to achieve equal rights for any human being.
00:40He had his shotgun ready and I sat up with him all night.
00:43And I still have a chronic insomnia from some of the things I lived through when I was a child.
01:00Most of the time we spent together was talking about freedom and freedom of religion, freedom to vote, freedom for everybody.
01:30We hope to achieve equal rights for any human being.
01:35We hope to achieve equal rights for any human being.
01:40We hope to achieve equal rights for any human being.
01:59Simply because she entered through the front door when the back door was too crowded.
02:06He grabbed her sleeve and he pushed her off the bus.
02:10It made her mad enough, she would recall, that she avoided riding his bus for a while.
02:16With the simplest of gestures, she helped change America and change the world.
02:46Pretty soon after she was arrested, the word got around.
03:15The Montgomery community and there was a spontaneous reaction.
03:21This led to the bus boycott.
03:24The Negro citizens decided not to ride the buses until these conditions were changed.
04:15I am hoping that we will continue to do all that we can to help our youth.
04:45Because they are our future.
04:47Because they are our future.
04:49Because they are our future.
04:51Called the First Lady of Civil Rights, she has remained committed to the cause of freedom,
05:16speaking out against injustice here and abroad.