“When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up, and I said, ‘No, I’m not.’ And he said, ‘Well, if you don’t stand up, I’m going to have to call the police and have you arrested.’ I said, ‘You may do that, ‘” Parks recalled in a 1987 PBS documentary on the Civil Rights movement.
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Clinton says the US must have an honest conversation “about the larger and deeper inequalities that continue to exist across our country.” .
She said, “No!” in the face of the bully.
“If you want to hide something from some parts of the community, put it in a book and that needs to go away as a stereotype of our community, we need to embrace education”, said President Boyd. “I thought we solved that problem thanks to numerous lawyers we are honoring today, but unfortunately there is mischief afoot, and some people are just determined to do what they can to keep other Americans from voting”.
She said Parks was also a recruiter and trainer for the Fellowship of Reconcilliation, a rape investigator for the NAACP, and a home economics teacher.
Rosa Parks was not the first to resist segregation on buses, but hers was the case that eventually came to symbolize this phase of the civil rights struggle. “And too many black families mourn the loss of a child”, she said.
“They knew that segregation was a distortion of justice, not an expression of it. They also knew that sometimes lawmakers get it wrong and when that happens, it’s up to lawyers and judges to make it right”.
Hillary Clinton celebrated a civil rights milestone with black leaders Tuesday but warned that the United States was still falling woefully short of providing equality and justice for African-Americans.
On this day, 60 years ago in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old woman sat on a bus on her way home from work at around 6pm.
Rosa Parks with Martin Luther King Jr in the background in the 1950s.
This was Clinton’s second visit to Alabama this election cycle. He gave a moving speech before Clinton took the pulpit.
This anniversary may be the last major one featuring those who participated in the year-long boycott, said Howard Robinson, an archivist and instructor at Alabama State University, which will host a discussion titled I Was There.
The praise for Clinton from black leaders here would be hard for Sen.
Clinton said: “We must strengthen the bonds of trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve”.
A recent NBC News/SurveyMonkey online pollfound Clinton barely edged out Sanders among white voters, and had a modest lead among Hispanics – but dominated Sanders among black voters, leading him by a 54 percentage point margin. But her deft turn in Alabama showed the depth of Clintonian influence in an area where even other Democratic candidates have faltered.
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The event was not a campaign stop for Clinton, but the fact she was running for president was in the thoughts of everyone in the room.
