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Number two. My name is rosa parks. And number three. My name is rosa parks. Once again, panel, these three ladies all claim to be civil rights champion rosa parks, and lets start the questioning with kitty carlisle. Number two, what led up to this glorious moment on that bus . How did you feel at the moment of arrest . [ bell dings ] that bell tells us the time is up. And now, of course, its time to vote whoever, in your opinion, is the real rosa parks. I voted for number two, and its just based...

It was as if dr. king was speaking directly to me." -i rarely saw her show emotion, but when dr. king was assassinated, i saw her cry at his funeral. -"i was losing the people i love best. my husband and brother were all sick, and there was a time when i was traveling every day to three different hospitals to visit them. i had to quit working full time and work only part time." -auntie rosa and uncle parks loved each other until the end. as uncle parks health deteriorated, the loving way that sh...

So what my grandfather would do, he would just grow his own food. -my father had a green thumb. hed work all day in the chryslers plant, and then he would come home and work a garden. we grew up on fresh tomatoes, green peppers, onion. there was enough food in that little plot for him, grandmother, auntie rosa, and uncle parks. -rosa parks is a very creative person, and she would take found items and create stuff out of them -- of course, dresses and ideas of quilts. -she taught us how to sew. t...

Rosa parks was there, and she was right up on the front seat. i always talked politics with her, and i got to know her pretty well, and also her husband. he was a very fine gentleman. -you never hear that much about raymond because he was a very quiet, behind-the-scenes kind of individual. youll find that rosa parks and raymond parks are inseparable. often, the man is out front, and you never hear about the wife. here, the reverse is true. -uncle parks was willing to let auntie rosa step out the...

She was holistic in her approach to the right of all people to be free. -"i came to understand that parks was willing to work for things that would improve life for his race and his family and himself. the second time parks and i were ever in each others company, he talked about getting married. i hadnt given marriage a thought at all. we were married in pine level in my mothers home. it was not a big wedding, just family and close friends." -uncle parks was one of the best of men. he was kind, ...

Between supporting mario adelie, or supporting reverend dr. martin luther king junior, whom she loved. she saw that as the same line of freedom fighting. she was holistic, and close to the right of all people to be free. >> i came to understand the parks was willing to work for things that would improve life, and the second time parks and i wherever in each others company, she talked about getting married. i hadnt even had a thought about marriage at all. it was not a big, with family and close ...