**Rosa Parks 70th Anniversary Livestream History Program - Hosted by Robert Kelleman**

Join us for a series of programs honoring Rosa Parks.
December 1st is the 70th anniversary of Rosa's arrest in 1955, an event which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement.
We invite you to participate in an educational and entertaining livestream film history program / screening of "The Rosa Parks Story" starring Angela Basset in the title role.

Before the screening there will a 30 minute overview of the film including historical context, plot summary, things to look for, accuracy, etc.

During and after the screening there will be an opportunity to discuss the film with your fellow participants via Zoom.

**The Rosa Parks Story** is a 2002 American television movie written by Paris Qualles and directed by Julie Dash. **Angela Bassett** portrays Rosa Parks, with Cicely Tyson in a supporting role as her mother. It was broadcast by CBS on February 24, 2002. It received awards from the NAACP and the Black Reel Awards.
**Film Trailer**
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tuCAAPOZQQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tuCAAPOZQQ)

**Rosa Louise McCauley Parks** (February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored" section to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks' prominence in the community and her willingness to become a controversial figure inspired the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year, the first major direct action campaign of the post-war civil rights movement. Her case resulted in a November 1956 Supreme Court decision that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.

**The Montgomery Bus Boycott** was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955 - the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person - to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling Browder v. Gayle took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional.

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Your host for this program is **Robert Kelleman**, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations Washington, DC History & Culture and Texas History & Culture.

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