Number two. My name is rosa parks. And number three. My name is rosa parks. Once again, panel, these three ladies all claim to be civil rights champion rosa parks, and lets start the questioning with kitty carlisle. Number two, what led up to this glorious moment on that bus . How did you feel at the moment of arrest . [ bell dings ] that bell tells us the time is up. And now, of course, its time to vote whoever, in your opinion, is the real rosa parks. I voted for number two, and its just based on a feeling. She just has that gentleness, i think, that would allow to be defiant. Okay. Any one of these three ladies could have had the courage, and im ashamed to say, i dont really know which one it really is, but i voted for number two. All right. And nipsey, who got your vote . Well, ill have to disqualify myself. I know mrs. Parks, and i was one of the entertainers on that show between selma and montgomery, but ms. Rosa parks is 10 foot tall, and shes a legend and a hero in the democrac
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as a helper of the tailor who is colored. this thing called segregation here is complete and solid pattern as a way of life. -to make money on the side, rosa parks is tailoring for one of montgomery s few white civil rights activist families, clifford and virginia durr. parks and virginia began a friendship. - she wanted to be part of our efforts to end segregation, even though that meant being ostracized and made to suffer. -durr is affiliated with highlander folk school. -the school was a new beginning, a link between the towns and the mountain. myles horton was its founder. -if we could demonstrate by the way we lived and what we believed and the way we treated people, that there was a possibility of, in this situation, blacks and whites, working things out. we hoped that idea would have some small influence.