North and groundworks about the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Weathered. See thank you. [applause] its good to have everybody out this afternoon. We have got a distinguished conversation here with my professor mary berry at the university of pennsylvania. [applause] Barbara Ransby is the author of a tiger free of ella baker of Eslanda Robeson and Jeanne Theoharis the author of the new biography on rosa parks. [applause] we want to start the conversation by talking about rosa parks. What do we know about rosa parks, jane . I wanted to start today with an evening meeting. That evening is november 27, 1955. On that november 27 rosa parks came to a meeting at dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear tm howard, dr. Tm howard talked about the recent acquittal of the two killers of emmett till. Dr. King introduce fascinating and howard was there to spread the word. Howard had been one of the key organizers in trying to get even a trial of those two men and after those men he had been acquitted was o
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