ROSA PARKS TIMELIME TV

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2016 LCV Cities Tour” in Montgomery, Alabama, from March 19-20 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Charter cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2.įelicia Bell and Rickey Brown talked about the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University. 1955: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott On December 1, 1955, African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. The arrest of Rosa Parks (that notorious insurrectionist sitter) started the boycott, which aimed to force the bus companies to integrate by not giving them. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Bell shared the story of the 381 day citywide boycott, and Rickey Brown gave a tour of the unique areas inside the Museum and explained the impact the boycott had on the city.

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In 1996, Rosa received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A few years later, she returned and got her diploma. He worked as a barber in Montgomery At age 16, Rosa dropped out of high school to care for her sick grandmother and mother. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks is credited with starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City bus. Rosa married a man named Raymond Parks in 1932. T14:49:24-04:00 Felicia Bell and Rickey Brown talked about the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University.

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