Box 15
Container
Contains 1 Result:
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
File — Box: 15, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note
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...
Dates:
1920-1970