Manuscript/Mixed Material Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts of her arrest and the subsequent boycott, as well as general reflections on race relations in the South, 1956-circa 1958, undated; Folder 2
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Image 1 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … ROSA PARKS 1956ca Box 18 Folder 10 Writings notes and statements Drafts of early writings 1956 ca 1958 undated Accounts of her arrest and the subsequent boycott as well as general Reflections…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 2 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … ESTABLISHED 1868 Montgomery Fair COMPANY 22 N COURT ST 29 DEXTER AVE 2432 MONROE ST Montgomery 4 Ala Dear Friend Daily Newspapers black Star Edition colored news separate Reason white readers would…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 3 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 2 The next bus driver may also not stop for Colored passengers Sometimes Colored passengers have to pay their fare at the front of the bus and then go to the rear…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 4 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 3 ESTABLISHED 1868 Montgomery Fair COMPANY 22 N COURT ST 29 DEXTER AVE 2432 MONROE ST Montgomery 4 Ala is for white The ladies lounge for public is known to be for…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 5 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 4 Colored people are employed at this store as maids porters elevator operators truck drivers except that I work in the tailor shop doing mens clothing alterations as a helper of the…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 6 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 5 ESTABLISHED 1868 Montgomery Fair COMPANY 22 N COURT ST 29 DEXTER AVE 2432 MONROE ST Montgomery 4 Ala one to take out The requested book will be sent to the Colored…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 7 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 6 endless I could go on and on and there would still be some more to tell The schools are all segregated and of course unequal The churches are also segregated White…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 8 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 7 ESTABLISHED 1868 Montgomery Fair COMPANY 22 N COURT ST 29 DEXTER AVE 2432 MONROE ST Montgomery 4 Ala in particular that you want to do research work on Employment housing voting…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 9 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … known Negroes who were killed by whites without any arrests or investigations and with little or no publicity It is the custom to keep such things covered up in order not to…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 10 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 1 Some common practices of Montgy City Lines bus drivers toward Negro passengers before the protest began on Dec 5 1955 In accordance with the racial segregation law whites occupy the front…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 11 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 350 3 ______________ 1050 Eye Eye Do you go with Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 12 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … Dates Stride Toward Freedom Jan 1954 Rev Kings first trip to Montgy to preach at Dexter Ave Bapt Church Jan 7 1861 Ala voted to secede from the Union Feb 18 Jefferson…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 13 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … Jan 28 Bombing of Peoples Ser Sta and home of Allen Robertson Jan 31 Seven white men arrested for bombing 5 indicted 2 dismissed Found not guilty even with signed confessions Transcribed…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 14 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 1 In Montgomery Ala the Cradle of the Confederacy Heart of Dixie there exist some strange and varied customs of racial segregation and Jim Crow laws There is much evidence everywhere of…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 15 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 2 With the wall artificial segregation between the races the white man formed in his own wh mind what he thought was what the Negro should have which is an inferior status…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 16 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 2 forward to finishing his education a entering a well paying profession The teachers were poorly prepared as well as under paid There were very few Negro businesses only some weak and…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 17 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … Montgomery situation on city bus lines before arrest of R Parks Practice of segregation in force No white Negro passengers could sit in occupy the same seat or sit across from each…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 18 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … ALABAMA SIGHT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC 619 SOUTH 19TH STREET BIRMINGHAM 3 ALABAMA TEL 33963 Mr R A Parks May 17 1956 634 Cleveland Court Montgomery Alabama Dear Mr Parks We feel sure…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 19 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 2 jailed for refusing to give up a seat almost to the rear of the bus She was found guilty of disorderly conduct and assault and battery The segregation charge was dismissed…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 20 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … Man has used this tradition to perpetuate the myth of white supremacy and blacks to deprive instill in the black man of selfrespect an inferiority complex Mrs Walker 57 675 NAACP 20…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 21 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 3 Following such incidents committees of citizens called on the City Commission and bus Company with petitions to relieve these and other degrading humiliations They were always politely brushed off and given…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 22 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … Brock Finance Company 500 AND UP 13 N Lawrence Street Lawrence at Dexter Avenue Montgomery 4 Alambama February 10 1956 R A We are sending you this letter as an invitation to…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 23 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … 4 the drivers orders Rosa Parks refused to move She was arrested taken to jailed locked in a cell charged with violation of the Montgomery transportation segregation law of transportation The driver…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 24 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … Hours 8 to 6 TELEPHONE 46476 Including Saturday BROCK FINANCE COMPANY 500 AND UP 13 N LAWRENCE STREET LAWRENCE AT DEXTER AVENUE MONTGOMERY 4 ALABAMA MARCH 8 1956 R A You have…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 25 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … I asked for water to drink One officer said I could get As I walked to the fountain one yelled said Git away from there You cant drink water from that fountain…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 26 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … Hampton Institute Hampton Virginia OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF FACULTY Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 27 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … I had been pushed around for all my life becau and felt at this moment that I couldnt take it anymore When I asked the policeman why we were had to be…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 28 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … I want to feel the nearness of something secure It is such a lonely lost feeling that I am cut off from life I am nothing I belong nowhere and to no…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 29 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression We soothe ourselves wiht with the salve of attempted indifference accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01
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Image 30 of Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Drafts of early writings; Accounts … to the end of lifes span whether it be long or of brief duration Little children are so conditioned early to learn their places in the segregated pattern as they take their…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1956-01-01