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Man is left standing. The bus driver notices this, his name is james blake, he tells the people in rosa parkss row, for this one white man to sit down, all four people in this row has to get up and he asks them to get up and no one moves. The axe again, you better make it right on yourself and the other three people reluctantly according to rosa parks get up and as she puts it, she pushed as far as she could be pushed, if she got up she would be consenting to this treatment and she did not consent. A young 14yearold had been lynched in mississippi, she thinks about her grandfather and she refuses and so she actually, the man sitting next to her get by her and flies over to the window and refuses. The bus driver says i am going to have you arrest a. She says you may do that. The bus driver gets up and calls the police, doesnt have a cellphone. We can think about what is happening, she is sitting there, those of us who have been on the bus when somebody makes a scene, people are grumblin
Montgomery but they have to leave montgomery in 1957 and she will spend the second half of her life as an activist in detroit fighting the racism of the jim crow no. She will continue to do that, rosa parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, she will be active against the war in vietnam, she will be active against South African apartheid, showing a picture with my favorites in the book about an older rosa parks protesting outside the South African embassy, she will continue until the end of her by saying the struggle is not over, there is much injustice in this country and she will be resolved to keep fighting but yet the way rosa parks is taught is a problem we salt in the past but the actual rosa parks says theres much more work to be done. Susan siegel host how did you do the research on this book . Guest i had to do a lot of digging. I did all sorts of oral history interviews, in part because part of rosa parkss favors were caught up in a dispute over her stage, got the papers
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The top nonfiction authors and books all available at booktv. Org. We are joined now by Jean Theo Harris from a professor of Brooklyn College and the author of the rebellious life of misses rosa parks. Prior to december 11955 was rosa parks rebellious . Guest absolutely, and her rebellious spirit starts as a young person, as a kid. For instance, sheinstance, she grows up in a home with her grandparents and her mother. After world war ii there is this uptake of clan violence. Her grandfather will sit out at night with his shotgun. Another time away bully pushes her, and she pushes back. Her political life starts when she meets who she describes, the 1st real activist she ever met, Raymond Parks and she will join him organizing around the scottsboro case. The thecase. The next 20 years she is active. She joins the naacp. For the next ten years she helps to lead the montgomery naacp into a more activist chapter doing voter registration, working on legal cases, legal action cases and tryin