one where we observed. this seemed by comparison so modest. a modest woman phd from california, and two ended up changing his vote that could change the court trajectory, and i guess in moments progress as time passes. they do but the wonderful thing about history particularly american history is we have made our greatest progress when the seemingly powerless have caught the attention of the powerful. and in the sweep of things rosa parks, december 1, 1955, refusing to get up helps ignite a movement. alice paul, the suffragist who decided to musk ove to lafayett
preached. cnn s martin savidge is joining us with more on this part of the story. martin, set the scene for us. reporter: well, the attorney general is expected at any moment. there s going to be first a small meeting that will take place with community leaders. after that, there s going to be a public forum. there are already a lot of people that have shown up and all allowed to go inside. this is the first of a series of regional meetings. but the first one takes place right here. historically, the significance is this, as you point out, dr. martin luther king. this is where he was born and preached. this is where he grew up. then there s the date. december 1, 1955 is when rosa parks decided that she would not sit in the back of the bus anymore. she refused to move and step away from the white section of a public bus in montgomery, alabama. and that set off a historic chain of events.
vanilla. 25 flavors. lloyd s custard in summer s point. bob: i would like the whole thing. andrea: me, too. bob: this week, president obama was in detroit at the henry ford museum. where there is a bus that was, i said dearborn, michigan. it says detroit. that is the producer. this is the bus that rosa parks rode in. the montgomery, alabama, bus boycott that many believe was the beginning of the civil rights movement. a young minister dr. martin luther king involved in that. rosa parks was a great hero. obama sat there and reflected on what it must have been like to have that courage. it happened december 1, 1955. proud to say my now departed father was a part of that and was involved in the civil rights movement for many years. congratulations, dad. rosa park and martin luther king.
not just chocolate and vanilla. 25 flavors. lloyd s custard in summer s point. bob: i would like the whole thing. andrea: me, too. bob: this week, president obama was in detroit at the henry ford museum. where there is a bus that was, i said dearborn, michigan. it says detroit. that is the producer. this is the bus that rosa parks rode in. the montgomery, alabama, bus boycott that many believe was the beginning of the civil rights movement. a young minister dr. martin luther king involved in that. rosa parks was a great hero. obama sat there and reflected on what it must have been like to have that courage. it happened december 1, 1955. proud to say my now departed father was a part of that and was involved in the civil rights movement for many years. congratulations, dad. rosa park and martin luther
you first. we can t see how this will be viewed in history, but we certainly have moments in history that even this early we can look at for comparison. right? well, certainly. i mean, the civil rights movement after the brown versus topeka decision in 1954 was triggered in many ways by the murder of emmett till in mississippi. the young boy, emmett till, had his eyes gouged out and was strangled, had a cotton gin tied to his neck and he was thrown into the tallahatchie river. it was his mother who kept an open coffin and said look what they do in the jim crow south, they killed a little boy, my son, emmett till, and it galvanized rosa parks. without that, row is is a parks wouldn t have had her moment of dissent on december 1, 1955, and the same with medgar evers of the naacp in mississippi. edgars simply wanted african-americans to have the right to vote. he was a marine. he was gunned down in his own driveway by a bigot in the south. and medgar evers helped spur