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

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.

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.

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