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to kind of challenge the ways thathat in much of our public conversation today there is a kind of dangerous i think distinction being made between what s being treated as the good old civil rights movement and the sort of movements for racial justice and black lives matter today. these are very dangerous distinctions and i think really looking at the history of rosa parks and particularly look at the history of rosa parks through criminal justice, really challenges these distinctions that some commentators are making today. and so i think a real look at rosa parks remind us from scottsboro to emmett till and jeremiah reed s distorted campaigns for justice for black women who were raped to the kind of criminalization of organizing that we see with highlander folk school and the bus buck offs to all of the defense committees she served on to all the anti-police brutality work she did sitting on the people s tribunal after the 1967 detroit uprising and on and on. i think s ....
history and conversation with us. and to kind of create a space to put that history of conversation with the president and struggles today. tonight we are going to be talking about black power and political refreshment. it feels a timely in the moment we are in. i think most of you who have been here before also know that every two months i like to talk about rosa parks. many of you know i am professor jeanne theoharis and i wrote a biography of rosa parks and this would have been her 100 third birthday. in honor of that, colleagues have built a new web site called rosaparksbiography.org to challenge the ways in much of our public conversation today there s a kind of dangerous distinction being made between what is being treated as the good old civil rights movement and the movements for racial justice and black lives matter today and these are dangerous distinctions and i think really looking at the history of rosa parks and particularly looking at criminal-justice. re ....