Rosa Parks and Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth from Lecture series: A Decade of Civil Rights History: 1960-1970: The Movement as Viewed by Participants, Loop College, Chicago

Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Recording is barely audible and contains heavy traffic noise in the background. Parks's brief speech (fully transcribed) describes growing up in racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama; working with the NAACP; challenges regarding voter registration in the 1940s; Parks's 1955 encounter of refusing to give her seat to a white man; the bus boycott with support from the Montgomery Improvement Association, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy; and Parks's experience at the Highlander Folk School. Shuttlesworth's speech (with partial transcript) relates the creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA); the 1956 Alabama legislature's decision outlawing the NAACP; bombing of his house; community involvement during the bus boycott in Birmingham, Alabama; 1957 confrontational mob scene with police at Terminal Station; wiretapping of telephone; and working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as SCLC secretary.