NAACP Chairman Julian Bond's Eulogy of Rosa Parks Metropolitan AME Church, Washington, D.C. October 31, 2005

The Crisis | November 1, 2005| | Copyright

We are gathered here to say goodbye and well done to Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She leaves us as she lived her life, with honor and dignity. She was daughter, sister, wife, aunt and mother to the Movement. But she was more than that. She leaves us just short of the 50th anniversary of the day she showed the world you can stand up for your rights by sitting down. Her actions produced a movement and introduced America to a new leader. Dr. King said, "She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet to come."

Now, she ...

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