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Hillary Clinton to Speak at Rosa Parks Event in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Sixty years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, Hillary Clinton arrives here to commemorate the bus boycott that began in this Deep South city on Dec. 1, 1955.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton will deliver a keynote address at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott in the basement six decades earlier. The speech, part of a two-day event put on by the National Bar Association, the country’s largest professional organization of African-American lawyers and judges, will focus on the role lawyers played in the Montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights movement.
Mrs. Clinton will join a lineup of prominent black activists and lawyers, including Benjamin L. Crump, the president of the National Bar Association who represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown; Representative Terri A. Sewell of Alabama; and the Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Dr. King.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/01/hillary-clinton-to-speak-at-rosa-parks-event-in-alabama/
On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton will deliver a keynote address at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott in the basement six decades earlier. The speech, part of a two-day event put on by the National Bar Association, the country’s largest professional organization of African-American lawyers and judges, will focus on the role lawyers played in the Montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights movement.
Mrs. Clinton will join a lineup of prominent black activists and lawyers, including Benjamin L. Crump, the president of the National Bar Association who represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown; Representative Terri A. Sewell of Alabama; and the Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Dr. King.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/01/hillary-clinton-to-speak-at-rosa-parks-event-in-alabama/
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Joyce Beatty ?@RepBeatty 1m1 minute ago
60 years ago, #RosaParks refused to give up her seat. Today, we honor her by celebrating Rosa Parks Day in Ohio.
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Hillary Clinton Verified account ?@HillaryClinton 42m42 minutes ago
On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks’ act of rebellion on a Montgomery bus sparked a national movement for equal rights.
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