Rosa Parks

Date

1913–2005

Description

City of birth: Tuskegee
Country of birth: United States
Field of activity: Politics — activism

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Quotes

‘And in that moment when you resolved to stay in that seat, you reclaimed your humanity and you gave us all back a piece of our own. I thank you for that. I thank you for acting without concern. I often thought about what that took, knowing the climate of the times and what could have happened to you, what it took to stay seated. You acted without concern for yourself and made life better for us all. We shall not be moved. I marvel at your will. I celebrate your strength to this day. And I am forever grateful, Sister Rosa, for your courage, your conviction.’

Author

Oprah Winfrey

Speaker

Oprah Winfrey

Title of the publication

‘Eulogy: Rosa Parks’

Other contributors

n/a

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank

City of publication

Texas

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

31 October 2005

Location [pp. or web]

www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/oprahwinfreyonrosaparks.htm

Original language

English

Genre

Eulogy

Context

Television presenter, actress, author and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey delivers one of the eulogies at Rosa Parks’ funeral.

‘I don't remember feeling that anger, but I did feel determined to take this as an opportunity to let it be known that I did not want to be treated in that manner and that people have endured it far too long. However, I did not have at the moment of my arrest any idea of how the people would react.’

Author

Rosa Parks

Speaker

Rosa Parks

Title of the publication

‘Rosa Parks Interview’

Other contributors

Interviewer

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

American Academy of Achievement

City of publication

Washington DC

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

2 June 1995

Location [pp. or web]

https://achievement.org/achiever/rosa-parks/#interview

Other location

https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/interview-with-the-academy-of-achievement-june-2-1995/

Original language

English

Genre

Interview

Context

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama and was subsequently arrested. Her act inspired the Montgomery bus boycott, the event most historians call the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.