we have the honor of having with us to start this whole celebration off is dr. jeanne theoharis who asked that question of rosa parks, what was behind that no, that no heard around the world? those little two letters that opened the flood gates of all those divergent streams into that one vast ocean. at the time that no carried with it great risk. risk in terms of gender, trials and race. the question is what is behind that kind of courage? what makes one take those kind of stands? and more importantly, what is the price paid for having done so? the doctor answers some of those questions, and she writes it in her new book, the rebellious life of rosa parks. jeanne theoharis was born in staten island and spent about six weeks there and her family moved to milwaukee, wisconsin, where she was raised. and as professor of political science at brooklyn college and also co-founder for educators for civil liberties. she s author of numerous books on the civil rights movement and cont
Why you selected those photographs, i would like to hear about that in terms of the true similarities and i would love to hear any comments you would care to share when families got together for the unveiling and two sides of the family together to describe in appropriate ways the interaction between them. The families do find a resemblance. I was actually in nashville recently where another member of the Shields Family and others descended from the white shield family pass along a photo that shifts the brother of her owner was remarking on the resemblance. Dolphus who lived in birmingham, the first ladys great great grandfather lived there at the same time his wifes half brother lived there and they lived not far. His brother lived kind of clothes to wear dolphus had a carpentry shop. People who knew him said he had a white visitor who would come and talk, of which was spun usual at that time and a very segregated city for the end of his life. This woman said that was his brother. The