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-Wait now. She's coming.
She's coming.
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-Oh,
the newspapers, Rosie...
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-Rosa, they're waiting.
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-The editor
of "Look" magazine is here
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with his photographer.
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-Everybody's with you.
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-Rosie, you can do this.
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-It's time.
-Rosie,
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you should just do it.
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-Rosie, you don't have
to do this...
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if you don't want to.
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-I know.
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-We're behind you
on this, Rosa.
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- We believe
in you. Go out there.
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- You can do this.
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-Clear the way, folks.
Clear the way.
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-Rosa,
what were you thinking
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when you refused
to give up your seat?
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-Was it a setup?
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-Please, back up.
Please, back up.
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-Rosa,
why did you do it?
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-Take us around the park.
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-Miss Parks,
give us a smile.
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-Yeah, okay.
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-All right.
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-We'll set up for another one.
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-Mrs. Parks? All right.
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Mrs. Parks?
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Rosa?
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Rosa? Rosa?
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-Rosie?
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Rosie? Oh,
look at the girls here.
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I wish I was going here.
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-Rosie? Rosie.
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Rosie, come on now, baby.
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Careful stepping off
the trolley.
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-...to see
the elephants, elephants,
elephants
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jump over the fence,
fence, fence...
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-Rosie,
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you be sure
and behave yourself now
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and pay attention.
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-Yes, ma'am.
-Miss White's school
costs money.
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-Yes, ma'am.
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-Speak only when
you're spoken to.
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Teacher asks a question,
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you know the answer,
open your mouth.
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Don't be shy.
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Let her know
what a smart little girl
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her new student is,
right, baby?
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-Yes, ma'am.
-Go on, they're expecting you.
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-It'll be so fun.
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-...cents,
cents, cents, to see
the elephants, elephants...
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-Good morning,
Miss White.
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-Good morning, girls.
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We have a new pupil
joining us today,
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Rosa McCauley.
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-You can sit right back there.
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-Thank you, Miss White.
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-I need
to see everyone's eyes
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up front, please.
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Thank you.
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-You're from
the country, aren't you?
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-Pine Level.
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-I've heard of that.
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I don't know where it is,
but I heard of it.
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I'm Rebecca Daniels.
You can call me Johnnie.
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So, what do you think about
Miss White's School so far?
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-It's a lot different
from what I'm used to.
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-Bet this is the first time
you was ever in a schoolroom
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with desk to write on
and glass in the windows?
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And you never seen
a chalkboard before
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or had a white teacher?
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-How do you know all of this?
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-Only country girls eat
tomato sandwiches.
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-Please pass
your tests forward.
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Rowena, did you not
do well on your test?
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-I never do well, Miss Barton.
I'm too stupid.
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-Rowena, you are not stupid.
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-I don't know
why we're bothering
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with all this reading
and arithmetic
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when all we gonna
end up doing for jobs is
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washing somebody's
clothes and wiping
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their baby's snotty noses.
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-Does anybody want
to answer Rowena's question?
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-Rosa, why do we bother?
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-We bother so we can be equal
to everybody else.
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-We're not equal
to everybody else.
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We're not equal to white folks.
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-I was raised to believe
if I put my mind to it,
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I can do whatever
I want in this world.
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I was taught
no one's better than me,
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no man, no woman,
black or white.
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No one.
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-If white folks say--
-No one.
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A person can take everything
from you, even your life,
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but they can't take
your dignity.
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Can't nobody take that
from you, but you.
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That's what
my grandpappy told me,
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and I believe him.
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-If you learn nothing else
at Mrs. White's School,
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may the Blessed Lord
help you remember
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what Rosa just taught you.
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-Amen, girl.
Forget Tuskegee
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and you can keep
Birmingham, too.
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-But you ain't been
nowhere else, Rosie.
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-That's all right.
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Because I love living
in Montgomery.
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-Rosa? Rosa?
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-Oh, yes, ma'am?
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-How is your mother?
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-She's doing fair.
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-I'm coming over to see her
real soon, hear.
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-Yes, ma'am.
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-Bye-bye.
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-Bye.
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-"We wear the mask
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"that grins and lies.
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It hides our cheeks
and shades our eyes."
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-Mm-hmm.
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-"This debt we pay
to human guile,
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with torn and bleeding hearts
we smile."
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-Parks,
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don't let me have to take
that straight razor
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out your hands.
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-What?
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-Those are the words
of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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-Who?
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-A great Negro poet.
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-Must be one
of them...
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-Oh no!
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-We're working against time
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to get the
Scottsboro boys freed.
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-Oh, at least
they're off death row.
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-The overseas newspapers
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are starting to make
a ruckus about it.
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-Isn't the NAACP trying--
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-The NAACP is just a bunch
of scared old men
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who blow hot and cold.
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It's gonna take money
to help those boys.
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A lot of it,
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so I'm working with a group
here in Montgomery
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trying to raise it.
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-That's dangerous
business, Parks.
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-Yeah, maybe.
-Oh, what he's doing now?
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-Parks' trying
to rob the cradle.
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Those are high school girls.
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-What about the one
in the purple sweater?
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I never seen her before.
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-Maybe she's new.
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-From where I stand, brother,
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she looks better than new.
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-Uh-huh.
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-Oh, hello, hello.
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-Hello, there,
ladies. Yeah.
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-Hello, Parks.
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-No need to stand
out in the rain.
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-All right.
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-It'd be a crying shame to get
that pretty sweater all wet.
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-It's just water.
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It'll dry.
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-Under that bright
and sunny smile,
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I'm sure it will.
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There's some newspapers.
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Take home what you like.
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Negro newspapers
may be hard to come by,
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but not in this shop.
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We got the "Crises"--
-Isn't he cute?
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-Who?
-Parks, girl.
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Raymond Parks.
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-"The Chicago Defender."
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-He too light skinned
for my taste.
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-Well,
he just right for mine.
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-They say he's working
with the Scottsboro boys
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legal defense fund.
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-Really?
-Life...
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is about facing danger,
my friends,
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about taking risks.
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We have to stand up
for what's right
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even if we have
to put our lives
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on the line.
-Mm-hmm.
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-The way I see it,
every Negro in this town
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should be behind supporting
those Scottsboro boys.
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They need money
for their legal defense fund.
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-Mm-hmm.
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-And I have the address
right here
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where you can make
your contribution.
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-Oh, that's
the shop owner.
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Let's go.
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-I'm just gonna go
home and do my schoolwork.
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-Maybe we should leave.
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We don't have any business
being in here.
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We already...
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-"We wear the mask
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"that hides our cheeks
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"and shades our eyes.
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"Beneath our feet
and long the mile,
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but let the world
dream otherwise."
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-Mm-hmm.
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-"We wear the mask."
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Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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-I'd better be getting home.
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I'll see y'all Monday.
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-Wait, Rosie.
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-Wait, Rosie.
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-Hey.
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-I'm Raymond Parks.
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Everybody calls me Parks.
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I wish you would, too.
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-I-I-I've got to go.
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-What's your name?
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-You're getting wet.
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-Then you'd better hurry up
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and tell me your name
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before I drown.
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-I-I really do have
to go home.
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-Said, I fell in love
with a gal,
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I thought was kind.
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She made me lose my money...
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and almost lose my mind.
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-Man.
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- Where did he go?
- Parks,
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you're gonna make me
late for work.
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-What's her name?
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-Fanny? What's her name, girl?
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-I shouldn't tell you.
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-Well, sure you should
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or you wouldn't be
Sweet Fanny.
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-Rosa.
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Our cousin's name is
Rosa Louise McCauley.
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-Thank you, Fanny.
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Tell your cousin
I'll be seeing her.
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-I'm paying for
a shave here, fancy-man.
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-What you're paying for
is my first date
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with Rosa Louise McCauley.
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-Scottsboro?
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It's right up there
near Tennessee.
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-Mm-hmm. Right up
near the border.
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-Colored folks
are plenty mad over this.
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-Of course they're mad, brother.
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Everybody knows
them boys didn't rape
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those white girls
in that train.
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-There's even talk
about the NAACP
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coming down from New York.
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-Oh, they're just gonna
make it worse
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for everybody.
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-They've been sentenced
to die, Mama.
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How much worse can it get?
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-Who can that be?
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-Hmm?
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-Who can that be?
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-Can't be nobody we know,
not with a car.
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-That,
that's not just a car.
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That's, that's a Studebaker,
a red Studebaker
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with a colored man getting out.
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-Hey, man.
-How you doing?
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-How you doing?
-All right.
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-Wow.
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A real Studebaker.
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Oh my!
-What?
262
00:12:44,344 --> 00:12:45,862
-Oh my, it's him.
263
00:12:46,413 --> 00:12:48,482
-Him, who?
-Um, uh,
264
00:12:48,517 --> 00:12:50,827
th-th-th-the barber, Mama.
265
00:12:50,862 --> 00:12:52,862
Uh... Parks.
-What?
266
00:12:52,896 --> 00:12:55,310
-Raymond Parks, I think that's
what he said his name was.
267
00:12:55,344 --> 00:12:56,862
-How'd you get
to meet a barber?
268
00:12:56,896 --> 00:12:58,793
-I, I didn't meet him.
He met me.
269
00:12:58,827 --> 00:13:00,172
-Motion picture
cameras, something like that.
270
00:13:00,206 --> 00:13:02,034
Go on, I won it
in a poker game.
271
00:13:02,965 --> 00:13:04,275
-But I can't see.
272
00:13:04,310 --> 00:13:05,896
-Mama,
go out there and tell him
273
00:13:05,931 --> 00:13:07,413
I'm not at home.
274
00:13:36,620 --> 00:13:39,034
-Hey, Sylvester. How you doing?
-Hey, man. How you doing?
275
00:13:39,068 --> 00:13:41,172
-Listen, I'm looking
for Rosa. Is she home?
276
00:13:41,206 --> 00:13:43,448
-Ooh. Rosa?
277
00:13:45,310 --> 00:13:47,413
She's not, man. I'll tell her
you came by, though.
278
00:13:47,689 --> 00:13:49,310
-Yeah, all right. Give
her these for me, all right?
279
00:13:49,344 --> 00:13:51,275
-I'll do that. I still wanna
learn how to drive that.
280
00:13:51,310 --> 00:13:52,931
-Put in
a good word for me.
281
00:13:52,965 --> 00:13:53,931
-I'll do that.
I'll do that.
282
00:13:53,965 --> 00:13:55,206
I'll do that.
283
00:13:58,137 --> 00:14:00,896
-Rosa, that man here again.
284
00:14:01,482 --> 00:14:03,137
Hey, man. How you doing?
285
00:14:03,172 --> 00:14:05,931
-I'm all right.
Is your sister...
286
00:14:05,965 --> 00:14:08,275
-She can't come
to the door right now, man.
-Yeah.
287
00:14:08,310 --> 00:14:09,517
-I'll tell her
you came by, though.
288
00:14:09,551 --> 00:14:10,586
-Yeah,
I know you will.
289
00:14:10,620 --> 00:14:12,655
-Get used to it.
-Yeah.
290
00:14:19,448 --> 00:14:21,103
-He's here again?
291
00:14:24,724 --> 00:14:26,000
-Rosie...
292
00:14:26,689 --> 00:14:30,448
I am just fresh out
of patience with you now.
293
00:14:33,310 --> 00:14:36,103
I don't know why
he keeps coming back.
294
00:14:39,379 --> 00:14:41,379
-Come on in,
Mr. Parks.
295
00:14:47,137 --> 00:14:48,965
-What'd he say, Mama?
296
00:14:51,965 --> 00:14:53,310
-He said...
297
00:14:54,137 --> 00:14:58,034
it's a good thing
gladiolus grow year round.
298
00:15:03,068 --> 00:15:04,586
Come on, I want
to show you something.
299
00:15:05,206 --> 00:15:07,724
-Oh, if I'd have
known about this,
300
00:15:07,758 --> 00:15:09,344
I'd have brought
my bathing suit.
301
00:15:09,379 --> 00:15:12,413
-Oh. It's a little muddy
for swimming,
302
00:15:12,448 --> 00:15:14,068
but it's great
for fishing.
303
00:15:14,344 --> 00:15:16,517
-Oh.
304
00:15:16,551 --> 00:15:18,344
My grandpapa taught me
how to fish.
305
00:15:18,862 --> 00:15:20,517
I sure do miss him,
306
00:15:20,896 --> 00:15:23,000
even after all these years.
307
00:15:23,517 --> 00:15:25,586
He was born
not too far from here.
308
00:15:25,620 --> 00:15:28,275
He spent close to half
his life as a slave.
309
00:15:29,517 --> 00:15:31,068
-He ever talk about it?
310
00:15:31,103 --> 00:15:32,241
-Not to me.
311
00:15:32,275 --> 00:15:34,344
-Uh-huh.
312
00:15:37,206 --> 00:15:39,310
I used to bait
my grandpapa's hook
313
00:15:39,344 --> 00:15:41,551
when his eyesight
got too bad.
314
00:15:43,068 --> 00:15:46,241
Oh, we'd sit for hours
315
00:15:46,793 --> 00:15:49,068
and talk about anything
and everything.
316
00:15:49,551 --> 00:15:52,172
Sometimes, we'd say
nothing at all.
317
00:15:54,551 --> 00:15:56,689
Mama, she used to tease.
318
00:15:56,724 --> 00:16:00,172
She'd say, "I learned to fish
before I could even walk."
319
00:16:01,448 --> 00:16:02,793
-I don't know about that,
320
00:16:02,827 --> 00:16:05,586
but, oh, I sure do love it.
321
00:16:13,103 --> 00:16:15,000
Did you fish much?
322
00:16:15,413 --> 00:16:16,413
-No.
323
00:16:18,310 --> 00:16:21,103
-Y-y-your daddy
never taught you how?
324
00:16:22,689 --> 00:16:25,275
-My daddy never taught me
much of anything...
325
00:16:26,827 --> 00:16:29,448
except maybe how many
different ways I could hate him.
326
00:16:31,517 --> 00:16:35,068
-Oh. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to...
327
00:16:35,103 --> 00:16:36,344
-No, that's all right.
328
00:16:38,103 --> 00:16:39,758
Pops was a carpenter.
329
00:16:40,517 --> 00:16:43,482
He was also white
or close enough to pass for it
330
00:16:43,517 --> 00:16:44,724
most of the time.
331
00:16:44,758 --> 00:16:46,172
That was his problem,
332
00:16:46,206 --> 00:16:48,310
was those times
he couldn't pass that...
333
00:16:50,689 --> 00:16:52,000
ate away at him.
334
00:16:54,689 --> 00:16:56,275
Took it out on my mother...
335
00:16:57,758 --> 00:16:58,793
and me.
336
00:17:00,344 --> 00:17:02,551
When he finally took off,
we had ourselves...
337
00:17:04,241 --> 00:17:05,413
a little party.
338
00:17:07,241 --> 00:17:09,344
When we heard he died
falling off a roof...
339
00:17:11,689 --> 00:17:13,689
I had myself
an even bigger party.
340
00:17:32,310 --> 00:17:34,172
A real big party.
341
00:17:52,655 --> 00:17:54,586
-Oh.
-It's the police.
342
00:17:55,206 --> 00:17:57,310
-This is all I need.
343
00:18:02,827 --> 00:18:04,137
Damn.
344
00:18:04,517 --> 00:18:06,379
Don't worry,
it'll be all right.
345
00:18:10,241 --> 00:18:12,206
-Mm, mm, mm.
346
00:18:13,862 --> 00:18:15,275
Woo!
347
00:18:15,310 --> 00:18:16,689
Whose car is this?
348
00:18:18,448 --> 00:18:19,620
-Mine.
349
00:18:22,413 --> 00:18:25,931
-You wouldn't be lying
to me now, would you, boy?
350
00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:34,655
-I-I can vouch
that this car is his.
351
00:18:35,068 --> 00:18:36,724
-Is that right?
352
00:18:38,758 --> 00:18:40,724
-I got the ownership papers
right here.
353
00:18:41,379 --> 00:18:43,482
-You're moving too fast, boy.
354
00:18:52,517 --> 00:18:54,724
-Calling
all cars. Calling all cars.
355
00:18:55,827 --> 00:18:57,482
-Get your ass off the road.
356
00:18:57,517 --> 00:18:59,655
-All cars
in the area. Calling all cars.
357
00:18:59,689 --> 00:19:01,655
-Damned negro's car's
better than mine.
358
00:19:27,551 --> 00:19:29,689
-You did the right thing, Parks.
359
00:19:31,482 --> 00:19:33,379
-I didn't do anything.
360
00:19:35,344 --> 00:19:37,517
-Sometimes,
that's the right thing.
361
00:19:39,724 --> 00:19:41,379
-Sometimes, it ain't.
362
00:19:43,724 --> 00:19:45,206
-I know that too.
363
00:20:02,551 --> 00:20:04,896
-Klan most likely lynched
these boys.
364
00:20:04,931 --> 00:20:06,551
They aren't gonna stand
for any local colored group
365
00:20:06,586 --> 00:20:08,482
working on that
Scottsboro case.
366
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,482
You ready?
367
00:20:50,586 --> 00:20:52,344
-Barber shop.
-Mr. Jeeter?
368
00:20:52,379 --> 00:20:53,482
-Yeah.
369
00:20:53,517 --> 00:20:55,034
-This is Rosa McCauley.
370
00:20:55,068 --> 00:20:56,413
-Well, hello, Rosa.
371
00:20:56,448 --> 00:20:58,275
-I'm looking for Parks.
372
00:20:58,310 --> 00:20:59,793
-Parks?
-Is he there?
373
00:21:00,379 --> 00:21:02,275
-Ain't seen Parks in--
374
00:21:02,793 --> 00:21:05,689
not since he went on
down there to Scottsboro.
375
00:21:05,724 --> 00:21:07,689
Now, I told him not to go on
down there by himself
376
00:21:07,724 --> 00:21:09,034
with all them people with him.
377
00:21:09,068 --> 00:21:10,448
You know what he's like.
378
00:21:10,482 --> 00:21:11,827
He just gets to talkin' and go.
-Thank you.
379
00:21:12,206 --> 00:21:13,689
-Rosa--
380
00:21:40,551 --> 00:21:42,827
-Next week, I'll teach you
how to throw a curveball.
381
00:21:44,068 --> 00:21:45,758
Come on, have a drink
382
00:21:49,793 --> 00:21:50,931
-Colored?
383
00:22:01,862 --> 00:22:04,517
-Brother, do you
think the water's sweeter?
384
00:22:04,551 --> 00:22:06,068
-Only one way to find out.
385
00:22:06,103 --> 00:22:08,103
-They catch you,you gonna get us all in trouble.
386
00:22:08,137 --> 00:22:10,413
-Not if I
switch the signs first.
387
00:22:23,793 --> 00:22:26,137
-Oh, don't you put
your lips on that water.
388
00:22:26,172 --> 00:22:27,551
-I think it tastes
a little worse,
389
00:22:27,586 --> 00:22:28,827
like rusty pipes.
390
00:22:30,034 --> 00:22:31,655
-Get on back now.
391
00:22:31,689 --> 00:22:33,413
-Get on back now. Get.
392
00:22:35,620 --> 00:22:37,896
-I bet
they just can't tell
the difference themselves.
393
00:22:44,413 --> 00:22:45,827
-Oh.
394
00:22:53,034 --> 00:22:54,931
-Aren't we gonna
change the signs back?
395
00:22:55,344 --> 00:22:57,931
Rosa? Rosa?
396
00:23:07,172 --> 00:23:08,758
-Strength of the soul...
397
00:23:12,758 --> 00:23:14,896
-Help us,
our Father, to realize
398
00:23:14,931 --> 00:23:19,931
how far we ourselves
are responsible...
399
00:23:19,965 --> 00:23:21,896
-Mama.
-...sickness...
400
00:23:22,172 --> 00:23:23,724
-Mama.
401
00:23:24,068 --> 00:23:25,586
-Help us to know--
402
00:23:34,482 --> 00:23:35,862
How did you--
403
00:23:36,862 --> 00:23:40,034
I thought that
you were dead.
404
00:23:40,068 --> 00:23:41,482
-I know.
405
00:23:41,827 --> 00:23:43,482
I'm so sorry.
406
00:23:44,689 --> 00:23:46,862
-How did you get--
your car's not outside,
407
00:23:46,896 --> 00:23:48,000
where's your-- oh.
408
00:23:48,586 --> 00:23:50,586
-I'm all right. I'm all right.
409
00:23:53,620 --> 00:23:55,482
-What happened to your face?
410
00:23:56,827 --> 00:23:57,965
-I sold the car.
411
00:24:00,206 --> 00:24:01,724
-Why?
412
00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:07,724
-Long as I have you,
I don't need anything else.
413
00:24:11,310 --> 00:24:13,551
-May God bless you
and keep you.
414
00:24:13,586 --> 00:24:15,586
I now pronounce you
husband and wife.
415
00:24:15,620 --> 00:24:18,758
Mr. Parks, you may
now salute Mrs. Parks.
416
00:24:25,206 --> 00:24:26,758
-Rosie, kiss him.
417
00:24:28,965 --> 00:24:30,655
-My turn
to kiss the bride.
418
00:24:35,241 --> 00:24:37,034
-Thank you.
-Throw that, girl.
419
00:24:42,758 --> 00:24:43,724
-That's right.
420
00:24:52,620 --> 00:24:53,793
-Throw that thing.
421
00:24:53,827 --> 00:24:55,000
-You can kiss now.
You can kiss now.
422
00:24:57,655 --> 00:24:58,965
-Here it comes.
423
00:25:16,034 --> 00:25:17,103
-Okay.
424
00:25:18,103 --> 00:25:19,310
-All right, ma'am.
425
00:25:22,724 --> 00:25:23,965
-Excuse me.
426
00:25:46,655 --> 00:25:47,896
-Hey.
427
00:25:47,931 --> 00:25:49,724
What do you think
you're doing?
428
00:25:51,655 --> 00:25:53,103
-You gonna get it now.
429
00:25:53,551 --> 00:25:55,551
She's going to get
so much shit again.
430
00:25:57,068 --> 00:25:58,620
-I said what do you think
you're doing?
431
00:26:00,965 --> 00:26:02,793
-I'm going to Cleveland Avenue.
432
00:26:03,896 --> 00:26:06,310
-Well, if you're going on
this bus, you gonna get off
433
00:26:06,758 --> 00:26:09,379
and come back on
in the back.
434
00:26:11,172 --> 00:26:12,862
-Get off for what?
435
00:26:12,896 --> 00:26:14,965
I'm already on.
Besides, it's raining.
436
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,379
-I don't care
if the sky is falling.
437
00:26:18,034 --> 00:26:21,206
If you are gonna ride
with my bus,
438
00:26:21,241 --> 00:26:22,793
you're gonna get off
439
00:26:22,827 --> 00:26:24,758
and come back on
round the back.
440
00:26:27,758 --> 00:26:29,068
Do you hear me?
441
00:26:31,413 --> 00:26:32,862
-Do not...
442
00:26:33,724 --> 00:26:35,965
put your hands on me.
443
00:26:38,931 --> 00:26:42,310
-All right. Get.
Let's go.
444
00:26:42,344 --> 00:26:44,620
-Come on. Get up.
445
00:26:46,344 --> 00:26:47,758
-Come on!
446
00:26:51,724 --> 00:26:52,862
-Just get up.
447
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,413
-Oh!
448
00:27:06,448 --> 00:27:08,206
I'm not sitting next to her.
449
00:27:17,931 --> 00:27:19,827
-Get off the bus.
450
00:27:22,068 --> 00:27:23,241
Thank you.
451
00:28:13,827 --> 00:28:16,931
-Maybe you
can get out of it.
452
00:28:17,241 --> 00:28:19,000
-It's a conscription letter,
Mama.
453
00:28:19,344 --> 00:28:21,000
You don't get out
of being drafted.
454
00:28:21,034 --> 00:28:23,862
-Well, there must be
somebody to write to.
455
00:28:23,896 --> 00:28:25,137
-And tell him what?
456
00:28:25,172 --> 00:28:26,482
"I think there's been
a terrible mistake,
457
00:28:26,517 --> 00:28:28,000
"Mr. Roosevelt,
458
00:28:28,034 --> 00:28:29,000
"but my mama don't think
I should be off
459
00:28:29,034 --> 00:28:30,103
fighting in nobody's war."
460
00:28:30,137 --> 00:28:31,827
-Well, what's wrong with that?
461
00:28:31,862 --> 00:28:33,034
It's the truth.
462
00:28:34,137 --> 00:28:35,275
-Oh, Raymond.
463
00:28:35,310 --> 00:28:36,034
-Instead of trying to make
464
00:28:36,068 --> 00:28:38,034
the world safe
for democracy,
465
00:28:38,068 --> 00:28:39,517
this damn country
ought to be trying
466
00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:41,896
to make Alabama safe
for the Negro.
467
00:28:41,931 --> 00:28:43,896
-Well, now, that's true.
-Well, there's Rosa.
468
00:28:45,551 --> 00:28:47,206
My God.
469
00:28:47,413 --> 00:28:48,862
-What happened?
470
00:28:50,137 --> 00:28:51,310
-Rosa?
471
00:28:51,689 --> 00:28:55,517
-I... walked home.
472
00:28:55,551 --> 00:28:57,862
-Walked?
That's over five miles.
473
00:28:57,896 --> 00:28:59,517
-Did you miss the bus, baby?
474
00:29:00,206 --> 00:29:01,275
-No.
475
00:29:01,310 --> 00:29:02,896
-What happened?
476
00:29:03,965 --> 00:29:06,448
-I was put off.
477
00:29:06,482 --> 00:29:07,965
-Thrown off the bus, why?
478
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,034
-What difference does it make?
479
00:29:10,068 --> 00:29:11,344
-I'm gonna get some coffee.
480
00:29:11,379 --> 00:29:13,000
Get out them wet clothes.
481
00:29:13,413 --> 00:29:15,206
-My God, you're soaked.
482
00:29:20,448 --> 00:29:23,034
-"...faith that
some fair morning,
483
00:29:23,068 --> 00:29:26,000
all we count good
and beautiful will come true."
484
00:29:42,241 --> 00:29:43,931
-Did he put his hands on you?
485
00:29:45,137 --> 00:29:46,310
-No.
486
00:29:47,965 --> 00:29:49,896
But he wanted to.
487
00:29:53,068 --> 00:29:55,000
-And why did he put you
off the bus?
488
00:29:56,379 --> 00:29:59,931
-'Cause I did not want
to pay my fare,
489
00:29:59,965 --> 00:30:03,379
get off, and get back on
in the back.
490
00:30:07,551 --> 00:30:08,896
-All right.
491
00:30:10,206 --> 00:30:11,379
Go on, lay back.
492
00:30:11,793 --> 00:30:14,103
Go on, lay back,
lay back, lay back.
493
00:30:15,275 --> 00:30:16,344
That's right.
494
00:30:29,517 --> 00:30:32,000
-You know, it's been like that
ever since there was trolleys.
495
00:30:32,034 --> 00:30:34,241
-Well, does that
make it right?
496
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,827
-I didn't say it was right.
497
00:30:39,931 --> 00:30:42,034
I said that's the way
it's always been.
498
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,344
-The last time I checked,
499
00:30:44,655 --> 00:30:47,275
the dime I pay for the token
to ride those buses
500
00:30:47,310 --> 00:30:50,206
is the same color as the dime
the white folks use.
501
00:30:50,241 --> 00:30:52,965
We are paying
to be humiliated.
502
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,551
And it does not make sense.
503
00:30:54,586 --> 00:30:57,965
-Since when did these
peckerwoods ever make sense?
504
00:31:04,068 --> 00:31:06,310
-I will tell you this,
505
00:31:06,344 --> 00:31:07,965
I will never...
506
00:31:09,068 --> 00:31:11,206
forget the driver's face.
507
00:31:25,965 --> 00:31:27,379
-All right.
508
00:31:33,275 --> 00:31:35,000
-Rosie,
509
00:31:35,034 --> 00:31:38,344
Rosie, didn't you go to school
with a girl named Johnnie?
510
00:31:38,793 --> 00:31:40,517
She's here in the paper.
511
00:31:44,689 --> 00:31:47,448
Rosie, Rosie,
didn't you go to school
512
00:31:47,482 --> 00:31:50,275
with a girl named,
named Johnnie?
513
00:31:50,689 --> 00:31:51,965
Ro--
514
00:32:11,172 --> 00:32:13,517
-So when we gonna start
this voter registration drive?
515
00:32:13,551 --> 00:32:16,034
-After
the Double V campaign.
516
00:32:16,068 --> 00:32:17,275
-Can we help you?
517
00:32:17,724 --> 00:32:19,655
-I-I'm sorry for interrupting.
518
00:32:19,689 --> 00:32:21,206
I'm here to see someone.
519
00:32:22,206 --> 00:32:23,206
-Rosie?
520
00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:28,448
Oh, girl!
521
00:32:31,517 --> 00:32:33,034
-Oh, Johnnie.
522
00:32:33,068 --> 00:32:35,551
-It's so good to see you.
-Oh.
523
00:32:35,586 --> 00:32:37,034
-Now, what you doing here?
524
00:32:37,068 --> 00:32:39,482
-Well, I saw
your picture in the paper.
525
00:32:40,448 --> 00:32:41,758
-We've got a meeting here.
-I'm sorry.
526
00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:43,103
-Oh, I'm sorry.
527
00:32:43,137 --> 00:32:44,275
No, no, we'll talk later.
528
00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:46,137
-No, come on. Uh-uh.
-No, no, no. I--
529
00:32:46,172 --> 00:32:47,655
Oh no--
-Stay here.
530
00:32:47,689 --> 00:32:49,068
This is important.
531
00:32:49,103 --> 00:32:52,034
This is my best friend,
everybody.
532
00:32:52,379 --> 00:32:55,379
Now, Arvie, would you let her
have this chair please?
533
00:32:55,413 --> 00:32:57,241
Okay, Rosa, stay right here.
534
00:32:57,275 --> 00:32:58,689
-Thank you so much. I'm sorry.
535
00:32:58,724 --> 00:33:00,448
-Sit right there.
536
00:33:00,827 --> 00:33:02,137
-Wait a minute.
Hold on now.
537
00:33:02,172 --> 00:33:03,241
Are you a member?
538
00:33:03,827 --> 00:33:05,241
-A member?
539
00:33:05,275 --> 00:33:06,620
-Of the NAACP.
540
00:33:06,655 --> 00:33:09,724
That's us, the people
you just interrupted.
541
00:33:09,758 --> 00:33:13,310
-Oh, well... no.
542
00:33:13,655 --> 00:33:15,793
-No,
you sit right here.
543
00:33:17,620 --> 00:33:21,137
-Well, you are hereby
a member in good standing.
544
00:33:21,172 --> 00:33:23,310
Dues are collected
at the end of the month.
545
00:33:24,620 --> 00:33:26,758
We're beginning
a membership drive.
546
00:33:26,793 --> 00:33:30,620
-And you'll be
an even better... member
547
00:33:30,655 --> 00:33:32,482
if you take good notes.
548
00:33:32,896 --> 00:33:35,000
-I guess I can.
549
00:33:37,758 --> 00:33:41,758
-The loud one,
that's E.D. Nixon,
the president.
550
00:33:42,275 --> 00:33:44,724
He's a Pullman Porter
on his regular job.
551
00:33:45,137 --> 00:33:48,206
He's noisy, but harmless.
552
00:33:48,689 --> 00:33:51,482
We've got a big campaign.
-You ladies need
a ride anywhere?
553
00:33:51,517 --> 00:33:53,793
-No, no.
We're gonna have lunch.
554
00:33:54,206 --> 00:33:56,586
Take my friend to--
-Oh.
555
00:33:57,034 --> 00:34:01,586
Oh, excuse me.
Um, Mr. Nixon, I...
556
00:34:01,620 --> 00:34:03,448
I, I do not mind
being secretary,
557
00:34:03,482 --> 00:34:05,793
but I hope that
you do not think
558
00:34:05,827 --> 00:34:07,413
that that is all
that I can do.
559
00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:09,724
-Well, what else can you do?
560
00:34:10,379 --> 00:34:13,310
-Well, you tell me
what you need,
561
00:34:13,344 --> 00:34:15,655
and, uh, I will tell you
if I can do it.
562
00:34:17,206 --> 00:34:19,344
Same old Rosa.
563
00:34:20,241 --> 00:34:22,344
-We got this group called
the Youth Council.
564
00:34:22,379 --> 00:34:24,827
School-age kids in need
of, of an adult advisor
565
00:34:24,862 --> 00:34:28,551
for things like counseling,
uh, bible study,
566
00:34:28,586 --> 00:34:30,137
teaching self-esteem.
567
00:34:30,172 --> 00:34:31,448
-I'd love to--
-Now, hold on now.
568
00:34:31,482 --> 00:34:33,655
They also need
a little juice,
569
00:34:33,931 --> 00:34:35,689
a little protest spirit,
570
00:34:36,103 --> 00:34:38,448
something too many of them
ain't getting at home.
571
00:34:38,482 --> 00:34:40,310
-She can do it,
Mr. Nixon.
572
00:34:40,344 --> 00:34:42,551
You got the right one,
she can do it.
573
00:34:42,586 --> 00:34:43,551
-All right.
574
00:34:45,241 --> 00:34:47,310
-Now, you have a nice day.
575
00:34:50,275 --> 00:34:52,482
So, what have you
been doing with yourself?
576
00:34:52,517 --> 00:34:54,586
-I've been working as
a seamstress across the street
577
00:34:54,620 --> 00:34:56,793
at Montgomery Fair
Department Store.
578
00:34:56,827 --> 00:34:58,482
Alterations, dresses.
579
00:34:59,206 --> 00:35:00,310
-Any children?
580
00:35:00,896 --> 00:35:02,413
-No.
581
00:35:02,931 --> 00:35:04,379
We've been hoping.
582
00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:07,241
I guess the Lord has
other ideas
583
00:35:07,275 --> 00:35:09,379
on how he wants us
to spend our time.
584
00:35:11,344 --> 00:35:12,344
Would you like
something to drink?
585
00:35:12,379 --> 00:35:13,862
-Hey, wait now. Uh-uh.
586
00:35:13,896 --> 00:35:16,655
Now, you come all the way
down here to find me
587
00:35:16,689 --> 00:35:18,758
and then get yourself
put to work,
588
00:35:18,793 --> 00:35:22,137
the least I can do is
buy you a soda water.
589
00:35:22,724 --> 00:35:23,931
Let me see here.
590
00:35:24,482 --> 00:35:26,724
Oh, that's my
voter registration card.
591
00:35:27,172 --> 00:35:29,620
-I always wanted to vote
for Mr. Roosevelt.
592
00:35:29,655 --> 00:35:30,586
-Really?
593
00:35:30,620 --> 00:35:33,275
-Eleanor, his wife,
she made it possible
594
00:35:33,310 --> 00:35:34,965
for Marian Anderson
to sing on the steps
595
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,379
of the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, DC.
596
00:35:38,551 --> 00:35:39,689
-Mm.
597
00:35:42,241 --> 00:35:43,482
You registered?
598
00:35:43,758 --> 00:35:46,724
-Not yet.
-Lord, don't tell
Mr. Nixon that
599
00:35:47,068 --> 00:35:49,862
or he'll have you tuned up
for a lecture.
600
00:35:49,896 --> 00:35:51,379
"Colored folks who don't vote
601
00:35:51,620 --> 00:35:54,310
deserve the treatment
they get."
602
00:35:56,310 --> 00:35:57,551
-Two soda waters?
603
00:35:57,793 --> 00:36:00,620
You can call me Johnnie.
And since you're new
604
00:36:00,655 --> 00:36:02,620
and don't have any friends,
I'll be your best friend.
605
00:36:03,862 --> 00:36:05,620
Miss White, Miss Barton,
606
00:36:05,655 --> 00:36:07,724
and all the teachers
are from the North.
607
00:36:07,758 --> 00:36:09,724
-They seem strict.
-They are.
608
00:36:09,758 --> 00:36:11,724
They're something
called Quaker.
609
00:36:11,758 --> 00:36:14,793
It's a religion that believes
all people are the same
610
00:36:14,827 --> 00:36:16,000
and should be treated right.
611
00:36:16,034 --> 00:36:17,793
-That's a good religion.
612
00:36:17,827 --> 00:36:19,724
-My mother thinks
Miss White is a saint,
613
00:36:19,758 --> 00:36:22,275
for putting up
with what she does
to keep the school open.
614
00:36:22,310 --> 00:36:23,413
-Like what?
615
00:36:23,758 --> 00:36:25,793
-Lots of people don't want her
teaching colored girls.
616
00:36:26,827 --> 00:36:29,482
Even burned the school twice
to try to stop her.
617
00:36:29,862 --> 00:36:32,620
And each time, Miss White
and the other teachers
618
00:36:32,655 --> 00:36:35,275
just build it back up
and keep on teaching.
619
00:36:37,620 --> 00:36:39,620
-Secretary?
-Mm-hmm.
620
00:36:39,655 --> 00:36:41,482
The meetings are just
once a month.
621
00:36:42,103 --> 00:36:45,034
-Secretaries do a lot more work
than just go to meetings.
622
00:36:45,068 --> 00:36:46,517
Well, I'm only volunteering,
623
00:36:46,551 --> 00:36:48,862
so I'll do as much
as I can or I want to.
624
00:36:49,310 --> 00:36:50,517
-That's what scares me.
625
00:36:50,965 --> 00:36:53,448
You'll do all you're asked
to do and then some.
626
00:36:53,896 --> 00:36:56,586
-Are you afraid that I
won't be home as often?
627
00:36:56,896 --> 00:36:59,379
-I'm afraid you
can't run fast enough.
628
00:36:59,827 --> 00:37:01,620
And then you won't be
home at all.
629
00:37:01,655 --> 00:37:03,689
You know, the police watch
those meetings, Rosa.
630
00:37:03,724 --> 00:37:05,068
I don't have to tell you
what can happen.
631
00:37:05,103 --> 00:37:07,586
-I won't be one
of the leaders, Parks.
632
00:37:07,620 --> 00:37:09,586
-Oh, you think a stick
of dynamite cares
633
00:37:09,620 --> 00:37:11,413
if you're just a secretary?
634
00:37:11,931 --> 00:37:13,448
-I wanna do this.
635
00:37:15,413 --> 00:37:16,862
-You don't need my permission.
636
00:37:16,896 --> 00:37:18,620
-I did not ask
for your permission,
637
00:37:18,655 --> 00:37:20,862
but your approval
would be nice.
638
00:37:20,896 --> 00:37:23,896
-Oh, you want my approval
to stick your neck out
639
00:37:23,931 --> 00:37:27,034
with a bunch of cowards
down at the NAACP.
-Parks.
640
00:37:27,068 --> 00:37:29,344
-No, I can't do that.
-They're all we have.
641
00:37:30,724 --> 00:37:33,034
-And Scottsboro was
ten years ago.
642
00:37:33,068 --> 00:37:35,931
-That's right, ten years and
those boys are still in prison.
643
00:37:36,310 --> 00:37:38,793
Ten years with the all-mighty
644
00:37:38,827 --> 00:37:42,000
National Association
of Colored People
wringing its hands
645
00:37:42,034 --> 00:37:43,689
like a bunch of old ladies
646
00:37:43,724 --> 00:37:45,793
shouting for justice
with a whisper.
647
00:37:45,827 --> 00:37:48,344
You know, Jews and Communists
did more to help them boys.
648
00:37:48,379 --> 00:37:49,586
-Now, they did.
649
00:37:55,758 --> 00:37:57,862
Now, you gonna do
what you wanna do.
650
00:38:07,482 --> 00:38:09,586
Rosie.
-Mm-hmm.
651
00:38:14,758 --> 00:38:15,931
-Mm-hmm.
652
00:38:22,137 --> 00:38:24,896
Ooh! Apple pie too?
653
00:38:24,931 --> 00:38:26,931
-Mm-hmm.
-The way to my heart.
654
00:38:26,965 --> 00:38:29,448
-The heart I already have.
655
00:38:29,793 --> 00:38:31,586
It's the mind I'm working on.
656
00:38:32,034 --> 00:38:33,413
-Mm-hmm.
657
00:38:41,655 --> 00:38:42,793
-Parks...
658
00:38:44,793 --> 00:38:46,448
I really need you
to understand
659
00:38:46,482 --> 00:38:47,827
that for the first time
in my life,
660
00:38:47,862 --> 00:38:49,931
I feel like I can help.
661
00:38:50,793 --> 00:38:53,068
Like, maybe I can do
something important
662
00:38:53,103 --> 00:38:54,413
for our people.
663
00:38:55,724 --> 00:38:57,793
-I understand
that passion, Rosa.
664
00:38:58,793 --> 00:39:00,482
And I was there
once, remember?
665
00:39:00,517 --> 00:39:01,862
-I know.
That's why I was hoping--
666
00:39:01,896 --> 00:39:04,482
-Yeah, but I'm afraid
of that passion too.
667
00:39:05,379 --> 00:39:07,586
Afraid for all the things
that can happen.
668
00:39:10,206 --> 00:39:14,965
-And what if I promise
to be very, very careful?
669
00:39:16,034 --> 00:39:17,413
-But you can't.
670
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,206
Don't you see?
671
00:39:20,241 --> 00:39:21,862
You can't be careful
672
00:39:22,241 --> 00:39:23,827
and be effective.
673
00:39:26,586 --> 00:39:28,551
Black people
have been trying.
674
00:39:31,068 --> 00:39:32,724
For 300 years.
675
00:40:19,551 --> 00:40:21,827
-"Though he will not rise
and give him
676
00:40:21,862 --> 00:40:23,724
"because he is his friend,
677
00:40:24,206 --> 00:40:26,551
"yet because
of his persistence,
678
00:40:26,586 --> 00:40:27,862
"he will rise
679
00:40:27,896 --> 00:40:31,517
and give him as many
as he needs."
680
00:40:32,206 --> 00:40:34,206
All right.
681
00:40:34,241 --> 00:40:37,586
Who can tell me
what persistence means?
682
00:40:38,172 --> 00:40:39,724
Yes?
683
00:41:18,137 --> 00:41:19,551
Hello.
684
00:41:20,310 --> 00:41:22,000
I came here to register.
685
00:41:23,655 --> 00:41:24,896
-You live in Montgomery County?
686
00:41:25,310 --> 00:41:26,241
-Yes.
687
00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:27,827
-How many states are there?
688
00:41:28,586 --> 00:41:29,896
-Forty-eight.
689
00:41:31,241 --> 00:41:33,793
-How many Senators
from each state?
690
00:41:35,586 --> 00:41:37,172
-Two from each state,
691
00:41:37,206 --> 00:41:39,551
96 in the whole country.
692
00:41:47,103 --> 00:41:50,034
-Answer the questions
completely and legibly,
693
00:41:50,068 --> 00:41:51,551
front and back.
694
00:41:51,586 --> 00:41:52,724
Next.
695
00:41:53,793 --> 00:41:54,931
Morning, Mr. Lester.
696
00:41:54,965 --> 00:41:57,034
You finally made it in
to register.
697
00:41:57,068 --> 00:41:58,724
-Yeah, the boys been
on me to get it done,
698
00:41:58,758 --> 00:42:00,310
so I figured
I might as well do it.
699
00:42:00,344 --> 00:42:01,793
-How's Emma
and the kids?
700
00:42:01,827 --> 00:42:03,103
-They're good.
701
00:42:03,965 --> 00:42:05,137
-You tell her
702
00:42:05,172 --> 00:42:07,344
that Janet from down
at the county says hi.
703
00:42:07,379 --> 00:42:08,965
-Mm-hmm.
704
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,689
-That'll be
a dollar-fifty.
705
00:42:12,724 --> 00:42:14,310
-That wasn't nearly
as hard as I figured.
706
00:42:15,827 --> 00:42:17,137
-You tell Hank hello for me.
707
00:42:17,172 --> 00:42:18,758
-Oh, I will.
-I'll see you in church Sunday.
708
00:42:18,793 --> 00:42:20,827
-Okay. Bye now.
709
00:42:20,862 --> 00:42:22,034
-Good day.
710
00:42:46,137 --> 00:42:47,000
-You didn't pass.
711
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:49,758
-What?
712
00:42:49,793 --> 00:42:51,724
-You failed the test.
713
00:42:52,655 --> 00:42:55,103
It's a requirement
to satisfactorily complete
714
00:42:55,137 --> 00:42:57,206
the civic test
to register to vote.
715
00:42:57,862 --> 00:42:59,965
-I-I would like
the test back please.
716
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,034
-I'm afraid that's
against our policy.
717
00:43:02,482 --> 00:43:05,793
-Well, how will I know
what questions I got wrong?
718
00:43:33,793 --> 00:43:37,862
-I will never,
never forget that driver's face.
719
00:44:10,241 --> 00:44:11,793
-She wouldn't even tell you
720
00:44:11,827 --> 00:44:12,931
what questions
you got wrong?
721
00:44:12,965 --> 00:44:14,965
-No.
Give me another one.
722
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,034
-The Judicial
and Legislative Branches...
723
00:44:18,068 --> 00:44:20,379
-Makes and enforces laws.
724
00:44:20,413 --> 00:44:21,448
Next.
725
00:44:21,482 --> 00:44:23,413
-The US Supreme Court--
726
00:44:23,448 --> 00:44:25,275
Rosa, you know
all of this mess,
727
00:44:25,310 --> 00:44:27,034
probably better
than most lawyers.
728
00:44:27,068 --> 00:44:29,034
How many lawyers do you think
they'd turn away
729
00:44:29,068 --> 00:44:30,758
down at that courthouse?
730
00:44:30,793 --> 00:44:32,275
-White or colored?
731
00:44:33,862 --> 00:44:36,724
-That... is my point.
732
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,137
As a US citizen,
I have a right to vote,
733
00:44:39,172 --> 00:44:41,931
and no person
who does not know,
734
00:44:41,965 --> 00:44:43,793
or who cannot tell me
what I got wrong,
735
00:44:43,827 --> 00:44:45,206
can keep me from that right.
736
00:44:49,965 --> 00:44:52,758
How many
United States Representatives
737
00:44:52,793 --> 00:44:54,068
are in Congress?
738
00:44:54,103 --> 00:44:56,310
-Four hundred and thirty-five.
739
00:44:56,344 --> 00:44:57,137
Next.
740
00:44:59,758 --> 00:45:01,068
-There you are.
741
00:45:04,344 --> 00:45:05,896
Just sign right there.
742
00:45:07,241 --> 00:45:08,206
Thank you.
743
00:45:16,482 --> 00:45:18,103
What's this?
744
00:45:18,137 --> 00:45:19,379
-Oh, I'm sorry.
745
00:45:19,827 --> 00:45:21,344
That one is my copy.
746
00:45:21,724 --> 00:45:24,379
This is the third time
I've taken this test.
747
00:45:24,413 --> 00:45:25,793
-What is it?
748
00:45:26,103 --> 00:45:28,413
-Oh, the questions
from the test.
749
00:45:28,448 --> 00:45:30,931
I wrote them down,
along with my answers.
750
00:45:30,965 --> 00:45:33,482
If you tell me that
I failed again, I want a lawyer
751
00:45:33,827 --> 00:45:36,000
to tell me
what I'm doing wrong.
752
00:45:42,413 --> 00:45:44,310
-We don't want any trouble.
753
00:45:49,862 --> 00:45:51,000
Give it to her.
754
00:45:53,068 --> 00:45:54,793
-That'll be twelve dollars,
755
00:45:54,827 --> 00:45:58,034
a dollar-fifty for each year
past the age of 21,
756
00:45:58,068 --> 00:46:00,379
the first year
you should have registered.
757
00:46:16,103 --> 00:46:18,379
-My registration card please?
758
00:46:18,413 --> 00:46:19,931
-You'll get it in the mail.
759
00:46:23,586 --> 00:46:25,000
-Thank you.
760
00:46:31,310 --> 00:46:34,275
-And of all the Jim Crowlaws, those segregating buses
are the most complex and--
761
00:46:34,310 --> 00:46:36,068
-The whims of
individual drivers
762
00:46:36,103 --> 00:46:37,586
make it even more confusing.
763
00:46:37,620 --> 00:46:39,413
Some bus drivers
are meaner than others,
764
00:46:39,448 --> 00:46:42,034
and some are meaner
than rattlesnakes.
765
00:46:42,068 --> 00:46:43,275
-They're affronting
and they speed off
766
00:46:43,310 --> 00:46:45,413
leaving you with a face
full of insults.
767
00:46:45,896 --> 00:46:47,379
Women are fed up.
768
00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:01,448
-We don't have much time.
I mean, what else do we do?
769
00:47:01,482 --> 00:47:05,586
Damnit. First, a Negro soldier
gets shot on the bus, now this.
770
00:47:05,620 --> 00:47:07,206
-No, we have to force this city
771
00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:10,241
to treat Negro riders
on its buses as human beings.
772
00:47:10,275 --> 00:47:11,482
-I agree.
773
00:47:11,517 --> 00:47:13,965
-Good evening, I'm Rosa Parks.
774
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,034
-Oh, I'm sorry,
775
00:47:15,068 --> 00:47:17,448
Clifford, Virginia Durr.
Rosa Parks.
776
00:47:17,482 --> 00:47:19,620
-Pleasure.
-It's nice to meet you.
777
00:47:19,655 --> 00:47:22,000
-Very nice
to meet you, Rosa.
-And you.
778
00:47:22,034 --> 00:47:23,689
-Jo Ann Robinson,
Women's Political Council.
779
00:47:23,724 --> 00:47:25,310
-We have to go.
-Pleasure.
780
00:47:25,344 --> 00:47:27,275
-Mr. Nixon, call me tomorrow
if you change your mind.
781
00:47:27,793 --> 00:47:29,344
-Very good.
-Good night.
782
00:47:29,379 --> 00:47:31,103
-Good night, everybody.
-Good night.
783
00:47:33,620 --> 00:47:35,000
What happened?
784
00:47:35,034 --> 00:47:36,965
-Colored girl got arrested
on the bus.
785
00:47:37,586 --> 00:47:39,000
Claudette Colvin.
786
00:47:39,034 --> 00:47:41,034
-For not giving up her seat
to a white man.
787
00:47:41,068 --> 00:47:42,689
-We need
to find someone
788
00:47:42,724 --> 00:47:44,103
who will swell up the people,
789
00:47:44,137 --> 00:47:45,965
like a revival's going on.
790
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,379
-Claudette is 15,
she's just a child.
791
00:47:48,413 --> 00:47:49,551
-Claudette's not the one?
-Uh-uh.
792
00:47:49,586 --> 00:47:52,310
-Well, I'm going home.
-Well, you can give me a ride.
793
00:47:52,344 --> 00:47:53,965
-All right.
-Good night.
794
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,310
-Oh, and Rosa.
795
00:47:55,344 --> 00:47:56,275
-Yes?
796
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,137
-Don't stay too late
797
00:47:59,413 --> 00:48:01,413
'cause I don't want your husband
getting mad at me.
798
00:48:01,448 --> 00:48:03,586
-Parks understands
that I enjoy my work.
799
00:48:03,620 --> 00:48:06,034
-But Lord knows a woman
don't need to be
800
00:48:06,068 --> 00:48:08,379
nowhere but home
and in the kitchen.
801
00:48:08,413 --> 00:48:11,344
-Then I cannot be here
typing all your letters
on this Underwood
802
00:48:11,379 --> 00:48:14,034
or organizing
your lecture calendar
803
00:48:14,068 --> 00:48:17,103
or answering all your mail
without pay.
804
00:48:18,137 --> 00:48:20,965
-Well, I, I need a secretary.
805
00:48:23,068 --> 00:48:24,206
And you're a good one.
806
00:48:24,620 --> 00:48:26,000
-Thank you.
807
00:48:26,689 --> 00:48:28,241
-Good night.
-Good night.
808
00:48:28,689 --> 00:48:30,482
-Uh, Jo Ann,
you coming with me?
809
00:48:39,206 --> 00:48:41,172
-Give me the bus cases.
810
00:48:42,655 --> 00:48:44,172
-Oh.
811
00:48:47,586 --> 00:48:49,379
It's always the buses.
812
00:49:08,172 --> 00:49:10,034
-Hello? May I help you?
813
00:49:10,482 --> 00:49:12,137
-I'm looking for Mr. Nixon.
814
00:49:12,172 --> 00:49:14,241
-Oh, I'm afraid
he's gone for the day.
815
00:49:14,275 --> 00:49:16,310
Is there something
I can do for you?
816
00:49:17,103 --> 00:49:18,482
-It's my boy.
817
00:49:20,482 --> 00:49:21,586
Elijah.
818
00:49:23,206 --> 00:49:24,448
He needs help.
819
00:49:31,620 --> 00:49:33,068
-All right. All right.
820
00:49:34,275 --> 00:49:35,586
You just take your time.
821
00:49:37,620 --> 00:49:39,448
-Didn't know
what we was doing.
822
00:49:40,034 --> 00:49:42,413
Been going on
since last summer.
823
00:49:44,448 --> 00:49:47,310
Ever since I started delivering
things to Sarah's house.
824
00:49:49,620 --> 00:49:52,172
Since we was kids,
we played together.
825
00:49:55,103 --> 00:49:57,482
-So, you were in her house?
826
00:50:00,344 --> 00:50:01,586
-Yes'm.
827
00:50:04,586 --> 00:50:08,206
A neighbor peeked
in the bedroom window.
828
00:50:08,482 --> 00:50:11,724
Sarah said I bust in
and forced myself on her,
829
00:50:12,586 --> 00:50:16,068
but I didn't do what they said,
Miss Parks, ma'am.
830
00:50:20,517 --> 00:50:22,448
-I believe you, Elijah.
831
00:50:23,862 --> 00:50:25,517
I believe you.
832
00:50:28,172 --> 00:50:29,758
-They say they're gonna
give me electric chair.
833
00:50:29,793 --> 00:50:31,068
-No.
834
00:50:31,586 --> 00:50:33,137
Not if we can help it.
835
00:50:37,172 --> 00:50:38,586
-But you can't help it.
836
00:50:39,172 --> 00:50:41,241
Ain't nothing
nobody can do to help me.
837
00:50:41,275 --> 00:50:43,758
-You got
to have faith, Elijah.
838
00:50:43,793 --> 00:50:46,655
-I expect I done cried
all my faith away, ma'am.
839
00:50:48,517 --> 00:50:52,482
The police be in here
all the time
840
00:50:52,517 --> 00:50:55,103
talking about how
they gonna watch me fry.
841
00:51:00,517 --> 00:51:02,517
They say it just like that...
842
00:51:04,827 --> 00:51:07,344
"You gonna fry, nigger."
843
00:51:30,586 --> 00:51:32,758
-That young man
did not rape that girl.
844
00:51:33,344 --> 00:51:36,482
-Maybe not, but you going down
to that jail didn't help him.
845
00:51:36,517 --> 00:51:38,758
-Well, somebody had
to do something.
846
00:51:39,689 --> 00:51:43,206
-And what is it that you did,
besides give him false hope.
847
00:51:44,827 --> 00:51:46,655
-I could not even do that.
848
00:51:48,379 --> 00:51:49,655
I never...
849
00:51:50,586 --> 00:51:52,482
felt so helpless.
850
00:51:54,758 --> 00:51:57,413
I never...
851
00:51:57,448 --> 00:52:01,655
-These graveyards are filled
with innocent black boys, Rosa.
852
00:52:03,413 --> 00:52:05,862
There's also quite a few
innocent black girls
853
00:52:05,896 --> 00:52:07,448
and men and women.
854
00:52:07,482 --> 00:52:09,586
-Well, I never sat across
from any of the others
855
00:52:09,620 --> 00:52:12,310
or saw the fear and
the helplessness in their eyes.
856
00:52:12,344 --> 00:52:13,551
I do not know them.
857
00:52:13,586 --> 00:52:15,586
-And you don't know this one.
858
00:52:16,482 --> 00:52:20,551
Rosa, baby, this boy
was caught in bed
859
00:52:20,586 --> 00:52:22,551
with a white girl.
860
00:52:22,586 --> 00:52:24,344
His mama ought to give thanks
that the police got to him
861
00:52:24,379 --> 00:52:26,137
before the Klan did.
862
00:52:28,275 --> 00:52:31,413
-So is it better to fry
than to be lynched?
863
00:52:32,965 --> 00:52:34,275
-You know what I'm saying.
864
00:52:34,310 --> 00:52:36,482
-What if he were
our son, Parks?
865
00:52:37,586 --> 00:52:39,793
How thankful would we be then?
866
00:52:41,931 --> 00:52:43,896
-If he was my son,
what went on
867
00:52:43,931 --> 00:52:45,551
between him and that girl
868
00:52:45,586 --> 00:52:46,896
never would have happened.
869
00:52:46,931 --> 00:52:49,310
-You don't know that, Parks.
-Oh, but I do.
870
00:52:50,103 --> 00:52:52,655
Because I'd have made
damn sure that he knew
871
00:52:53,172 --> 00:52:55,137
how the South worked.
872
00:53:03,413 --> 00:53:06,034
-Remember,
whatever happens,
873
00:53:06,068 --> 00:53:09,034
you do not become
angry or rude.
874
00:53:09,068 --> 00:53:11,793
Just do what
we came here to do.
875
00:53:16,068 --> 00:53:17,965
-Thank you, Jill,
and Merry Christmas.
876
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,275
-Merry Christmas.
877
00:53:22,068 --> 00:53:23,724
-I'd like to check out
a book please.
878
00:53:24,655 --> 00:53:28,379
-Oh, the procedure is that
you go to the colored branch
879
00:53:28,413 --> 00:53:29,517
in your neighborhood.
880
00:53:29,551 --> 00:53:30,862
Check out the book there.
881
00:53:30,896 --> 00:53:32,448
-I went,
882
00:53:32,482 --> 00:53:33,965
but they didn't have
what I need.
883
00:53:34,241 --> 00:53:36,241
They hardly ever have
what I need.
884
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,620
-That may be, but you can't
check books out here.
885
00:53:40,068 --> 00:53:42,689
-Why not?
They just checked out books.
886
00:53:44,482 --> 00:53:47,965
You must put in a request
at your own branch
887
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,620
to have the book sent to you.
888
00:53:49,655 --> 00:53:50,758
-That takes too long.
889
00:53:50,793 --> 00:53:52,344
By the time you send it,
890
00:53:52,379 --> 00:53:53,896
I won't need it anymore.
891
00:53:54,310 --> 00:53:55,758
-Well, I can't help that.
892
00:53:56,896 --> 00:53:58,551
-Your procedure is unjust
893
00:53:58,827 --> 00:54:01,620
and insulting to anyone
who knows right from wrong.
894
00:54:07,620 --> 00:54:10,344
-I'd like to check out
a book please.
895
00:54:27,068 --> 00:54:28,862
Thank you, Jesus.
896
00:54:37,517 --> 00:54:38,620
Oh.
897
00:54:44,034 --> 00:54:46,620
It's, it's tonight.
898
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:49,551
-I know.
899
00:54:52,068 --> 00:54:54,827
-They gonna kill
my boy, Mrs. Parks.
900
00:55:13,724 --> 00:55:17,586
-The Lord... is my shepherd,
901
00:55:17,620 --> 00:55:19,965
I shall not want.
902
00:55:21,448 --> 00:55:25,068
He makes me lie down
in green pastures,
903
00:55:25,103 --> 00:55:29,896
-Rosa and Woman: He leads me
beside still water.
904
00:55:32,620 --> 00:55:34,413
-He restores my soul.
905
00:55:34,448 --> 00:55:36,931
-He restores my soul.
906
00:55:45,482 --> 00:55:48,482
-What will my
lady be wearing this Christmas?
907
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:56,551
-Montgomery Fair's
winter collection.
908
00:55:59,137 --> 00:56:01,896
-Everything
that sparkles and shines.
909
00:56:07,586 --> 00:56:11,655
-We usually shop
in New York or Atlanta.
910
00:56:12,379 --> 00:56:14,655
I come here
because of you, Rosa.
911
00:56:15,241 --> 00:56:17,482
You are the best in this town.
912
00:56:18,172 --> 00:56:19,689
-Why, thank you, Mrs. Rymer,
913
00:56:20,241 --> 00:56:21,724
I enjoy my work.
914
00:56:26,172 --> 00:56:28,655
-Rosa, hey, can you come in
early tomorrow morning?
915
00:56:28,689 --> 00:56:30,034
Christmas has us swamped.
916
00:56:30,068 --> 00:56:34,206
-Y-yes, Mr. Bradley.
I can use the hours.
917
00:56:34,241 --> 00:56:36,724
-Good. Be here at 8:00?
-Yes, sir.
918
00:56:38,034 --> 00:56:40,137
-Hey, there.
Is this your shoe size
919
00:56:40,172 --> 00:56:41,655
on this piece of paper?
920
00:56:41,689 --> 00:56:43,724
-I wanna try on shoes too.
921
00:56:44,620 --> 00:56:47,517
-My favorite color,
they're green.
922
00:56:47,551 --> 00:56:49,206
-I wanna try on shoes.
923
00:56:49,241 --> 00:56:51,655
-We'll find you
a handsome pair of shoes.
-Mama.
924
00:56:51,689 --> 00:56:54,655
-Oh, hush, baby,
you know you can't try on shoes.
925
00:56:54,689 --> 00:56:56,896
-Why not?
-That's why
we trace your foot at home.
926
00:57:05,827 --> 00:57:07,068
-Can I help you?
927
00:57:08,689 --> 00:57:10,551
-So what did you have
for lunch today?
928
00:57:11,137 --> 00:57:13,034
-She's getting new shoes today.
929
00:57:13,379 --> 00:57:15,206
-Why is she making
a copy of her feet?
930
00:57:15,620 --> 00:57:18,034
-You ain't never had
no new shoes before?
931
00:57:18,724 --> 00:57:21,034
Colored folks can't try on
things at the stores.
932
00:57:24,655 --> 00:57:27,000
-All right. Let me see
what I can do.
933
00:58:20,068 --> 00:58:21,793
-Let me have
those front seats.
934
00:58:37,068 --> 00:58:38,896
Y'all better
make it light on yourselves
935
00:58:38,931 --> 00:58:40,689
and let me have those seats.
936
00:58:50,655 --> 00:58:51,793
-Are you gonna move?
937
00:58:58,137 --> 00:58:59,000
-No.
938
00:59:00,724 --> 00:59:03,379
-If you don't give me that seat,
I'm gonna have you arrested.
939
00:59:05,758 --> 00:59:07,379
-You may do that.
940
00:59:18,241 --> 00:59:20,034
-Stop. Come on.
941
00:59:29,137 --> 00:59:30,241
-Montgomery City line.
942
00:59:30,275 --> 00:59:32,896
-Dispatch. Driver James Blake.
943
00:59:33,172 --> 00:59:35,724
Listen, I got a,
I got a colored woman on my bus
944
00:59:35,758 --> 00:59:37,241
in violation of the law.
945
00:59:37,275 --> 00:59:38,931
-Did you warn her, Jim?
946
00:59:43,103 --> 00:59:44,655
-Yes, sir, I warned her.
947
00:59:44,931 --> 00:59:46,310
-Well, then you just do it.
948
00:59:46,344 --> 00:59:48,896
You got to exercise
your powers and put her off.
949
00:59:49,275 --> 00:59:51,724
-All right. Yeah,
I'm gonna need police backup.
950
00:59:55,344 --> 00:59:56,310
-Just get up.
951
01:00:00,206 --> 01:00:01,137
-What are you
trying to do?
952
01:00:08,344 --> 01:00:11,689
-Grandpappy,
I think I hate white people.
953
01:00:11,724 --> 01:00:13,172
-Only thing you need to remember
954
01:00:13,965 --> 01:00:16,034
is that you're as good
as anybody else,
955
01:00:16,068 --> 01:00:18,896
white, black,
or green with stripes.
956
01:00:19,413 --> 01:00:21,896
Don't ever be afraid
of what could happen to you
957
01:00:22,172 --> 01:00:23,758
if you're fighting
for what's right.
958
01:00:24,448 --> 01:00:26,206
As long as you
keep that with you,
959
01:00:26,862 --> 01:00:28,931
then hate will be a word
for other people.
960
01:00:48,724 --> 01:00:49,655
-Let's just go.
961
01:00:49,689 --> 01:00:50,965
Let's go.
962
01:01:00,310 --> 01:01:02,206
-Well, she's sitting
in the colored section.
963
01:01:10,310 --> 01:01:13,206
-I needed that seat,
and she wouldn't move.
964
01:01:15,310 --> 01:01:16,862
I want her arrested.
965
01:01:17,931 --> 01:01:19,448
-Why won't you stand up?
966
01:01:21,172 --> 01:01:24,862
-Why do you want
to push us around?
967
01:01:24,896 --> 01:01:26,241
-Will you listen to that?
968
01:01:29,275 --> 01:01:30,206
-The law's the law.
969
01:01:32,965 --> 01:01:34,758
Lady, you're under arrest.
970
01:02:16,172 --> 01:02:19,068
-I would like to make
a telephone call please.
971
01:02:20,137 --> 01:02:21,758
-Remove the glasses.
972
01:02:24,551 --> 01:02:26,000
Look straight ahead.
973
01:02:36,896 --> 01:02:38,379
-Rosa Parks,
follow me.
974
01:02:51,172 --> 01:02:52,862
-I need to use the telephone.
975
01:03:03,586 --> 01:03:06,931
Oh, well ain't you
the fancy one.
976
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:12,206
You just come from church?
977
01:03:16,137 --> 01:03:17,275
-Hello.
978
01:03:18,310 --> 01:03:19,344
Good evening.
979
01:03:21,034 --> 01:03:23,827
-Hey, can we get
some cigarettes?
980
01:03:25,344 --> 01:03:27,413
You're listening to WCOB,
981
01:03:27,448 --> 01:03:29,827
Montgomery's
number one gospel station.
982
01:03:42,275 --> 01:03:45,103
-Miss Leona.
-Yes, you're Mr. Nixon.
983
01:03:45,137 --> 01:03:46,241
-How are you doing
this evening?
984
01:03:46,275 --> 01:03:48,931
-Just in time for a fine batch
985
01:03:48,965 --> 01:03:50,137
of Christmas cookies,
986
01:03:50,172 --> 01:03:52,000
-just out the oven.
-No, no, I couldn't.
987
01:03:52,034 --> 01:03:53,448
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
988
01:03:53,482 --> 01:03:56,068
-Well, how about coffee?
-No, no, really.
989
01:03:58,241 --> 01:04:00,448
-What?
-Rosa's been arrested.
990
01:04:03,793 --> 01:04:05,344
-No.
-It's gonna be all right.
991
01:04:05,379 --> 01:04:07,103
Just calm down, just be calm.
-What happened?
992
01:04:08,655 --> 01:04:10,103
-Word's all over town.
993
01:04:11,413 --> 01:04:13,103
Rosa's been arrested.
She's in jail.
994
01:04:14,103 --> 01:04:15,310
-Did they beat her?
995
01:04:15,896 --> 01:04:17,310
-We don't know
anything yet.
996
01:04:17,344 --> 01:04:19,241
-Oh, Lord have mercy.
-Just--
997
01:04:19,275 --> 01:04:20,344
Parks.
998
01:04:26,551 --> 01:04:29,034
-Montgomery Police,
give me the desk sergeant.
999
01:04:29,310 --> 01:04:30,620
Get her out.
1000
01:04:30,655 --> 01:04:31,655
-Oh.
1001
01:04:33,689 --> 01:04:36,000
-Yes, this is Ed Nixon,
1002
01:04:36,034 --> 01:04:39,241
president, Montgomery NAACP.
1003
01:04:39,275 --> 01:04:41,482
We understand you've got
one of our members down--
1004
01:04:43,620 --> 01:04:45,103
-Son of a bitch.
1005
01:04:58,172 --> 01:04:59,310
-Hello?
1006
01:04:59,344 --> 01:05:01,000
Yes, Mr. Nixon.
1007
01:05:02,758 --> 01:05:04,275
Clifford.
1008
01:05:06,068 --> 01:05:07,103
It's Mr. Nixon.
1009
01:05:07,137 --> 01:05:08,482
The police have arrested
Rosa Parks
1010
01:05:08,517 --> 01:05:10,344
and they won't give him
any information.
1011
01:05:11,068 --> 01:05:12,344
-What happened?
1012
01:05:13,793 --> 01:05:15,103
When?
1013
01:05:17,068 --> 01:05:18,413
Okay, I'll try,
then I'm on my way.
1014
01:05:28,206 --> 01:05:29,413
-This is Clifford Durr.
1015
01:05:31,103 --> 01:05:33,413
Attorney Clifford Durr,
sergeant.
1016
01:05:33,448 --> 01:05:36,689
-We pray tonight
with confidence, amen.
1017
01:05:36,724 --> 01:05:39,241
-Okay, ladies.
Let's break it up in there.
1018
01:05:41,689 --> 01:05:43,172
Rosa Parks,
1019
01:05:44,034 --> 01:05:46,206
let's go.
-Everything
will be all right.
1020
01:05:53,758 --> 01:05:56,241
Parks.
-Oh, Rosa.
1021
01:05:57,206 --> 01:05:58,655
It's gonna be all right.
1022
01:05:58,689 --> 01:06:00,103
-Thanks for everything.
1023
01:06:00,137 --> 01:06:01,413
-It'll be all right.
1024
01:06:02,620 --> 01:06:04,103
Don't worry now.
1025
01:06:09,275 --> 01:06:11,103
-We can't afford
no big fine.
1026
01:06:11,137 --> 01:06:14,068
-Whatever it is, we'll just have
to find a way to pay it.
1027
01:06:14,103 --> 01:06:16,241
Rosie's not going back to jail.
1028
01:06:16,275 --> 01:06:18,068
-When's the court date?
-Monday.
1029
01:06:18,103 --> 01:06:20,275
And don't worry,
there's no way in hell
1030
01:06:20,310 --> 01:06:22,068
we're gonna let Rosa
go back to jail.
1031
01:06:22,103 --> 01:06:24,241
-No, she shouldn't have been
in there in the first place.
1032
01:06:24,275 --> 01:06:25,103
-Parks.
1033
01:06:25,137 --> 01:06:26,827
-I'm sorry, Rosa,
1034
01:06:26,862 --> 01:06:28,689
but I'm not hiding
how I feel.
1035
01:06:28,724 --> 01:06:31,310
You and that group of yours
are just as responsible
1036
01:06:31,344 --> 01:06:32,517
for her being arrested.
1037
01:06:32,551 --> 01:06:33,793
-I think
we should be going.
1038
01:06:35,517 --> 01:06:36,620
-If you need--
-Hello.
1039
01:06:36,655 --> 01:06:38,586
-Miss Leona, this is Johnnie.
1040
01:06:38,620 --> 01:06:41,413
Rosa's arrest has upset all
the colored folks in Montgomery.
1041
01:06:41,448 --> 01:06:43,000
Now, you remember
Jo Ann Robinson?
1042
01:06:43,379 --> 01:06:45,068
Well, she has a group
of her students
1043
01:06:45,103 --> 01:06:46,620
printing leaflets right now.
1044
01:06:47,034 --> 01:06:49,000
They wanna boycott the buses.
1045
01:06:50,655 --> 01:06:52,482
-Yeah, Johnnie?
-They're
organizing a meeting.
1046
01:06:52,517 --> 01:06:55,103
-Uh-huh.
-With the new minister.
1047
01:06:55,137 --> 01:06:58,482
-When?
-Tomorrow morning
at Dexter Avenue Church.
1048
01:06:59,344 --> 01:07:00,551
-All right.
1049
01:07:05,689 --> 01:07:07,172
There's a meeting scheduled
1050
01:07:07,655 --> 01:07:10,379
for tomorrow morning
at Dexter Avenue Church.
1051
01:07:10,413 --> 01:07:11,655
-For what?
1052
01:07:11,689 --> 01:07:14,344
-It's about you
and your stand on the bus.
1053
01:07:15,206 --> 01:07:19,103
Our ministers have the phones
buzzing all over town.
1054
01:07:19,551 --> 01:07:21,137
They want you at the meeting.
1055
01:07:22,379 --> 01:07:24,241
And, well,
if you can't make it,
1056
01:07:25,206 --> 01:07:26,413
they'll understand.
1057
01:07:27,379 --> 01:07:29,379
-Dexter Avenue Church.
1058
01:07:30,551 --> 01:07:32,103
The one with
the new minister?
1059
01:07:32,137 --> 01:07:33,482
-That's the one.
1060
01:07:33,517 --> 01:07:34,551
-Oh my...
1061
01:07:36,275 --> 01:07:37,586
-I better be going.
1062
01:07:40,206 --> 01:07:44,137
Mr. Parks, if you think
we put Rosa up to this,
1063
01:07:44,586 --> 01:07:46,655
you don't know
your wife real well.
1064
01:07:47,482 --> 01:07:48,689
If anything...
1065
01:07:49,758 --> 01:07:51,517
she's the one leading us.
1066
01:07:54,413 --> 01:07:56,655
-Raymond...
1067
01:07:57,206 --> 01:07:59,517
-...I'm gonna fix you
something to eat.
1068
01:07:59,551 --> 01:08:01,413
You must be starved.
1069
01:08:06,586 --> 01:08:10,379
You cannot really believe
that they asked me to do this?
1070
01:08:11,379 --> 01:08:13,655
-My wife was in jail--
1071
01:08:13,689 --> 01:08:16,896
-I did not ask
to be arrested, Parks.
1072
01:08:16,931 --> 01:08:19,689
All I wanted was what everybody
else on that bus wanted,
1073
01:08:19,724 --> 01:08:20,793
to go home.
1074
01:08:20,827 --> 01:08:22,931
And I do not need Nixon,
1075
01:08:22,965 --> 01:08:25,413
the NAACP,
or anybody else to tell me
1076
01:08:25,448 --> 01:08:27,275
that I have a right
to my dignity
1077
01:08:27,310 --> 01:08:29,379
when I'm taking
that ten-cent ride.
1078
01:08:39,965 --> 01:08:41,586
-Now, I wanna know is
1079
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,896
what are we gonna do
about this here arrest?
-Mm-hmm.
1080
01:08:48,448 --> 01:08:50,275
-This is what
we gonna do.
1081
01:08:50,310 --> 01:08:52,448
I say we stop
riding their buses.
-That's right.
1082
01:08:52,482 --> 01:08:54,206
-They don't treat us
with respect,
1083
01:08:54,241 --> 01:08:55,896
they don't deserve
our business.
1084
01:08:55,931 --> 01:08:57,862
- That's right.
- Stop riding the buses?
1085
01:08:57,896 --> 01:08:59,241
Just like that?
1086
01:08:59,275 --> 01:09:00,965
-Just like that.
For one whole day.
1087
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:02,689
-It's the moment
we've all been waiting for.
1088
01:09:02,724 --> 01:09:04,862
Rosa Parks here
is a good citizen.
1089
01:09:05,310 --> 01:09:07,000
We have got
to take a stand.
1090
01:09:07,482 --> 01:09:09,965
I say we stop riding
the buses Monday,
1091
01:09:10,310 --> 01:09:11,931
the day of Rosa's trial.
1092
01:09:15,551 --> 01:09:16,413
-There's no time to think.
1093
01:09:17,551 --> 01:09:19,620
- Is that the only way?
1094
01:09:19,655 --> 01:09:22,931
- If Montgomery is like
most cities in the South,
1095
01:09:22,965 --> 01:09:25,034
colored folk make up
the majority of the riders.
1096
01:09:26,827 --> 01:09:29,586
-So I say we hit them
crackers where it hurts.
1097
01:09:29,620 --> 01:09:31,275
-Where?
-The cash box.
1098
01:09:31,310 --> 01:09:32,482
- Yes.
- That's right.
1099
01:09:32,517 --> 01:09:34,275
- Boycott is illegal.
1100
01:09:34,310 --> 01:09:36,827
-Then we'll call it a protest.
Is that all right with you?
1101
01:09:37,655 --> 01:09:40,965
-Y'all know there's bound
to be some retaliation.
1102
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:44,034
Now, let's just start off first
by sending a letter
1103
01:09:44,068 --> 01:09:45,379
to the bus company.
-Letters?
1104
01:09:46,689 --> 01:09:48,689
-We're talking about
one day off the buses.
1105
01:09:48,724 --> 01:09:51,000
-And one day
is all they need
1106
01:09:51,034 --> 01:09:52,896
to feel like they can put us
back in our place.
1107
01:09:52,931 --> 01:09:56,827
-Our place is not looking up
at them from our knees.
1108
01:09:56,862 --> 01:10:00,379
- Amen!
-Hell, even a lapdog
gets tired of being kicked.
1109
01:10:00,413 --> 01:10:04,517
Now, Mrs. Parks
has given us her courage,
1110
01:10:04,551 --> 01:10:05,896
a golden opportunity.
-Yes.
1111
01:10:05,931 --> 01:10:08,448
-Are we gonna be cowards
and just let it go?
1112
01:10:08,482 --> 01:10:09,827
-No.
-Now, you,
1113
01:10:09,862 --> 01:10:11,275
you don't talk to me like that.
1114
01:10:11,310 --> 01:10:12,689
I'm a grown man.
1115
01:10:12,724 --> 01:10:14,655
-Well, stand up
like one, Reverend.
1116
01:10:14,689 --> 01:10:15,758
-Well,
I'm standing up like one.
1117
01:10:20,965 --> 01:10:22,448
-Let Reverend King speak.
1118
01:10:22,482 --> 01:10:24,517
Let the reverend speak.
-Reverend King.
1119
01:10:24,551 --> 01:10:27,482
-If a protest against
the buses is gonna work,
1120
01:10:27,517 --> 01:10:28,862
it's critical that
we be together.
1121
01:10:28,896 --> 01:10:30,517
-That's right.
-That's right.
1122
01:10:30,551 --> 01:10:33,620
-Divisiveness is
the sure path to failure.
1123
01:10:33,655 --> 01:10:35,379
-And that's what
we're doing right now.
1124
01:10:41,551 --> 01:10:43,551
-The charge was
disorderly conduct.
1125
01:10:43,586 --> 01:10:45,344
-And you don't think
that's gonna be a problem?
1126
01:10:45,379 --> 01:10:47,034
-Mrs. Parks
was not disorderly.
1127
01:10:47,068 --> 01:10:49,034
She did not resist
or in any way get belligerent
1128
01:10:49,068 --> 01:10:50,586
with the arresting officers.
1129
01:10:50,896 --> 01:10:52,862
Plus, there's a law that says
that a colored person
1130
01:10:52,896 --> 01:10:54,896
doesn't have to give up
their seat to a white
1131
01:10:54,931 --> 01:10:56,448
if they're seated
in the colored section
1132
01:10:56,482 --> 01:10:57,758
and there's no other seats open.
1133
01:10:58,827 --> 01:11:00,758
-Well, I didn't know that.
1134
01:11:00,793 --> 01:11:02,896
-You and every other Negro
in Montgomery.
1135
01:11:02,931 --> 01:11:04,620
-Bottom line is
that bus was filled.
1136
01:11:05,103 --> 01:11:07,862
You were withinyour lawful right not get to up.
-Mm-hmm.
1137
01:11:07,896 --> 01:11:09,517
-Just get her off.
1138
01:11:10,551 --> 01:11:11,724
-Look over there
at the bus stop.
1139
01:11:14,448 --> 01:11:15,482
-officer: Yeah, we get
something to eat.
1140
01:11:18,068 --> 01:11:20,068
-It wasn't realistic
to expect everybody would walk.
1141
01:11:20,103 --> 01:11:22,793
-Nana.
-A lot of folks
just live too far.
1142
01:11:22,827 --> 01:11:24,689
-Y'all getting
on the bus or not?
1143
01:11:28,862 --> 01:11:32,344
-I ain't getting on
until Jim Crow gets off.
1144
01:11:37,482 --> 01:11:38,724
-I'll see you, brother.
1145
01:11:40,448 --> 01:11:42,344
-Sweet Mabel.
It's gonna be a good day.
1146
01:11:42,379 --> 01:11:43,827
Them buses naked
as jaybirds.
1147
01:11:47,620 --> 01:11:50,344
-Do you swear to tell
the truth, the whole truth,
1148
01:11:50,379 --> 01:11:52,344
nothing but the truth
so help you God?
1149
01:11:52,379 --> 01:11:53,517
-I do.
1150
01:11:54,379 --> 01:11:56,034
-Miss Wycliff,
where were you
1151
01:11:56,068 --> 01:11:58,068
approximately 7:00 p.m.
1152
01:11:58,103 --> 01:12:00,827
on the evening
of December 1st, 1955?
1153
01:12:00,862 --> 01:12:02,413
-I was riding the bus.
1154
01:12:02,448 --> 01:12:04,793
I got on at
the Court Square bus stop.
1155
01:12:04,827 --> 01:12:07,551
-And did you see
the arrest of the Parks woman?
1156
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:10,482
-I saw it
as clearly as I see you.
1157
01:12:10,793 --> 01:12:12,517
-At the time
of her altercation
1158
01:12:12,551 --> 01:12:14,448
with the driver, Mr. Blake,
1159
01:12:14,482 --> 01:12:15,793
were there any empty seats
1160
01:12:15,827 --> 01:12:17,931
in the colored section
of that bus?
1161
01:12:19,862 --> 01:12:21,965
-There were plenty
of empty seats.
1162
01:12:22,620 --> 01:12:24,034
-That's a lie.
1163
01:12:25,655 --> 01:12:26,896
-I'll have order in my court.
1164
01:12:39,620 --> 01:12:41,482
-Hey, Parks.
-Hey, Johnnie.
1165
01:12:41,517 --> 01:12:42,965
-Are y'all ready?
-Yeah.
1166
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,758
-Oh, Miss Leona,
look at that pretty tree.
1167
01:12:46,793 --> 01:12:48,655
-That's Rosie's handiwork.
1168
01:12:48,689 --> 01:12:49,965
-Oh, Rosa.
1169
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,413
All the folks, well,
they, they riled up.
1170
01:12:52,931 --> 01:12:55,448
-Aren't y'all going?
-Going where?
1171
01:12:55,482 --> 01:12:57,827
-The Holt Street Church.
There's a mass meeting called.
1172
01:12:58,448 --> 01:12:59,517
-About what?
1173
01:12:59,551 --> 01:13:01,137
-The protest.
1174
01:13:01,172 --> 01:13:02,827
I think they gonna continue it,
1175
01:13:02,862 --> 01:13:04,896
and they wanna know
if you're coming.
1176
01:13:04,931 --> 01:13:07,517
-What they need with Rosa?
-Well, I think that--
1177
01:13:07,551 --> 01:13:09,103
I guess they thought
it would be good
1178
01:13:09,137 --> 01:13:10,655
if she was there.
1179
01:13:11,172 --> 01:13:12,586
-Well, good for who?
1180
01:13:13,551 --> 01:13:17,000
-Well, if y'all are going,
you better come on and hurry up.
1181
01:13:17,034 --> 01:13:18,655
Now, look,
half the colored folk
1182
01:13:18,689 --> 01:13:20,758
in all Montgomery
talking about this meeting.
1183
01:13:20,793 --> 01:13:23,034
This is an important meeting.
Come on with me, Miss Leona.
1184
01:13:23,068 --> 01:13:25,137
I'm telling you,
this is a-- this is it.
1185
01:13:25,172 --> 01:13:27,034
This is an important meeting.
1186
01:13:27,068 --> 01:13:29,413
Yeah, they're riled up, Rosa.
1187
01:13:36,965 --> 01:13:39,655
-Parks.
-They're using you, Rosa.
Can't you see it?
1188
01:13:39,689 --> 01:13:42,551
-Yes, I do see it,
and I don't mind.
1189
01:13:42,586 --> 01:13:43,827
-Well, I mind.
1190
01:13:44,172 --> 01:13:45,655
I mind them using my wife.
1191
01:13:45,689 --> 01:13:47,551
You're not Harriet Tubman,
damn it.
1192
01:13:47,586 --> 01:13:49,689
-No, I'm only Rosa Parks,
1193
01:13:50,724 --> 01:13:52,000
and I am your wife.
1194
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,965
So, if you do not want me
to go to this meeting...
1195
01:13:57,137 --> 01:13:58,482
I won't.
1196
01:14:01,068 --> 01:14:02,068
-You go on.
1197
01:14:05,758 --> 01:14:06,586
Do what you wanna do.
1198
01:14:43,103 --> 01:14:45,655
-Up here, Sister Parks.
1199
01:14:45,689 --> 01:14:47,551
Ladies and gentlemen,
1200
01:14:47,586 --> 01:14:50,034
the heroine
of our finest hour,
1201
01:14:50,275 --> 01:14:52,034
Mrs. Rosa Parks.
1202
01:14:55,551 --> 01:14:57,689
-Mrs. Parks.
God bless her.
1203
01:14:57,724 --> 01:14:59,034
-There she is.
1204
01:15:15,103 --> 01:15:17,000
-Just the other day,
1205
01:15:17,034 --> 01:15:19,896
just last Thursday to be exact,
1206
01:15:19,931 --> 01:15:23,034
one of Montgomery's
finest citizens,
1207
01:15:23,068 --> 01:15:25,793
not one of the finest
Negro citizens
1208
01:15:25,827 --> 01:15:29,000
but one of the finest citizens
in Montgomery
1209
01:15:29,689 --> 01:15:33,000
was taken from a bus
and carried to jail
1210
01:15:33,034 --> 01:15:36,172
and arrested because
she refused to give up her seat
1211
01:15:36,206 --> 01:15:37,827
to a white person.
-Praise the Lord.
1212
01:15:37,862 --> 01:15:39,827
-And since
it had to happen,
1213
01:15:39,862 --> 01:15:44,068
I'm so happy it happened
to a person like Mrs. Rosa Parks
1214
01:15:44,586 --> 01:15:46,172
for nobody can doubt
1215
01:15:46,206 --> 01:15:48,655
the boundless outreach
of her integrity,
1216
01:15:48,931 --> 01:15:50,827
the height of her character,
1217
01:15:50,862 --> 01:15:52,862
or the depth
of her Christian commitment
1218
01:15:52,896 --> 01:15:54,586
to the teachings of Jesus.
1219
01:15:54,620 --> 01:15:56,655
-Yes, Lord.
1220
01:15:56,689 --> 01:15:59,862
-We're going to work with grim
and firm determination
1221
01:15:59,896 --> 01:16:02,034
to gain justice in this city.
1222
01:16:02,068 --> 01:16:03,896
-Amen.
-Preach.
1223
01:16:04,448 --> 01:16:06,000
-And we are not wrong.
1224
01:16:06,034 --> 01:16:07,724
If we are wrong,
1225
01:16:07,758 --> 01:16:09,689
the Supreme Court
of this nation is wrong.
1226
01:16:11,172 --> 01:16:12,793
-If we are wrong,
1227
01:16:12,827 --> 01:16:15,344
the Constitution
of the United States is wrong.
1228
01:16:16,896 --> 01:16:18,172
-If we are wrong,
1229
01:16:18,206 --> 01:16:20,310
God Almighty is wrong.
1230
01:16:21,896 --> 01:16:24,172
-If we are wrong,
justice is a lie.
1231
01:16:24,758 --> 01:16:27,862
And we are determined
here in Montgomery
1232
01:16:27,896 --> 01:16:30,034
to work and fight
until justice
1233
01:16:30,068 --> 01:16:31,137
runs down like water...
-Yes, Lord.
1234
01:16:53,206 --> 01:16:54,275
-Rosa.
1235
01:16:54,586 --> 01:16:55,896
-Yes, Mr. Bradley.
1236
01:16:56,758 --> 01:16:59,896
-Your position
has been eliminated, Rosa.
1237
01:16:59,931 --> 01:17:01,241
I'm sorry.
1238
01:17:01,758 --> 01:17:03,965
-Business is down and--
-Down?
1239
01:17:05,275 --> 01:17:07,793
But this is as busy
as it gets all year.
1240
01:17:08,137 --> 01:17:10,172
-Well, not if your boycott
continues.
1241
01:17:15,034 --> 01:17:16,206
Your pay through last week.
1242
01:17:35,965 --> 01:17:37,862
-Up there,
it's Rosa Parks.
1243
01:18:41,862 --> 01:18:43,275
-Get the door.
1244
01:18:43,310 --> 01:18:44,931
Get the door!
1245
01:18:44,965 --> 01:18:46,206
Kick it. Kick it!
1246
01:19:42,068 --> 01:19:43,896
-It's me, it's me.
-Damn it!
1247
01:19:44,965 --> 01:19:47,137
-I saw them out front,
so I decided
1248
01:19:47,172 --> 01:19:48,896
to come through the back.
1249
01:19:49,931 --> 01:19:51,379
It's all right.
1250
01:19:52,586 --> 01:19:54,000
It's okay.
1251
01:19:56,931 --> 01:19:57,931
Where's Mama?
1252
01:19:58,448 --> 01:20:01,068
-The reverend and Miss Davis
gonna look after her tonight.
1253
01:20:01,586 --> 01:20:03,965
We had to board up
the house for safety, Rosa.
1254
01:20:04,275 --> 01:20:06,206
We can't take
much more of this.
1255
01:20:06,724 --> 01:20:08,379
-We're supposed
to call the police
1256
01:20:08,413 --> 01:20:09,862
when they come like this.
1257
01:20:09,896 --> 01:20:11,241
-What for?
1258
01:20:11,931 --> 01:20:13,931
They never do anything
about it.
1259
01:20:14,620 --> 01:20:19,000
Hell, half of them crackers
under them hoods is police.
1260
01:20:19,034 --> 01:20:21,310
-We're still supposed
to call for the record.
1261
01:20:22,413 --> 01:20:24,448
Legally, it could help us.
1262
01:20:26,068 --> 01:20:27,551
-Why are you so late?
1263
01:20:27,896 --> 01:20:29,586
-I was out looking for work.
1264
01:20:30,965 --> 01:20:32,068
-You lost your job?
1265
01:20:32,689 --> 01:20:35,103
-They said business was down,
so they had to let me go.
1266
01:20:36,379 --> 01:20:38,827
-But it'll be all right,
I'll find something.
1267
01:20:39,137 --> 01:20:40,896
And with your job--
-My job?
1268
01:20:43,068 --> 01:20:45,586
Which mean the job
I used to have?
1269
01:20:46,931 --> 01:20:48,034
-What happened?
1270
01:20:48,068 --> 01:20:49,344
-Let's just say
it's no secret
1271
01:20:49,379 --> 01:20:51,034
who my wife is.
1272
01:21:04,482 --> 01:21:05,965
Hello?
1273
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:24,344
-No, no, no.
1274
01:22:13,379 --> 01:22:15,034
-Oh, it's Granddaddy.
Come on.
1275
01:22:46,137 --> 01:22:47,586
-We got
some new ones just down there.
1276
01:22:59,379 --> 01:23:00,586
-We had a good rain.
1277
01:23:02,827 --> 01:23:04,413
-What time's
the next carpool?
1278
01:23:05,758 --> 01:23:08,620
Might as well look at your watch
and pick a number.
1279
01:23:08,655 --> 01:23:10,793
It's just as good
as the schedule.
1280
01:23:11,275 --> 01:23:13,655
-If you don't wanna wait,
you can catch the city bus.
1281
01:23:13,689 --> 01:23:15,068
It ought to be by directly.
1282
01:23:15,103 --> 01:23:17,413
-Yeah, well, I,
I just might do that.
1283
01:23:27,275 --> 01:23:30,241
-One of my customers
from the store, Mrs. Rymer,
1284
01:23:30,275 --> 01:23:32,068
says she might have
some more work for us
1285
01:23:32,103 --> 01:23:33,241
when this is finished.
1286
01:23:34,172 --> 01:23:36,793
-Well, bless Mrs. Rymer's heart
1287
01:23:37,689 --> 01:23:40,793
and Mr. Rymer, too,
for looking the other way.
1288
01:23:50,413 --> 01:23:51,793
Parks here?
1289
01:23:52,551 --> 01:23:55,413
-Haven't seen him
since early this morning.
1290
01:24:22,655 --> 01:24:23,655
-Oh, baby.
1291
01:24:24,137 --> 01:24:26,241
-I'm losing him, Mama.
1292
01:24:26,517 --> 01:24:27,655
-No, Rosie.
1293
01:24:28,068 --> 01:24:29,689
Raymond loves you.
1294
01:24:29,965 --> 01:24:31,724
-I know he does.
1295
01:24:32,586 --> 01:24:35,586
That is why it hurts
to see him like this.
1296
01:24:35,620 --> 01:24:39,551
-This is hard for everybody
these days, Rosa.
1297
01:24:39,586 --> 01:24:41,310
-But it's my fault.
1298
01:24:41,344 --> 01:24:42,620
-It's not your fault.
1299
01:24:42,655 --> 01:24:43,827
-Yes, it is.
1300
01:24:44,344 --> 01:24:46,793
I was the one
who sat on that bus.
1301
01:24:47,724 --> 01:24:51,655
I was the one who dared
that driver to deal with me.
1302
01:24:51,689 --> 01:24:53,310
-And he did, so...
1303
01:24:54,586 --> 01:24:55,724
here we are.
1304
01:24:57,689 --> 01:25:00,724
Are you trying to tell me
that you'd take it all back?
1305
01:25:03,655 --> 01:25:04,620
-Yes.
1306
01:25:09,896 --> 01:25:10,931
No.
1307
01:25:15,896 --> 01:25:17,379
I don't know.
1308
01:25:18,724 --> 01:25:19,931
-You do know.
1309
01:25:21,482 --> 01:25:22,655
You know.
1310
01:25:23,896 --> 01:25:26,206
And knowing what you do now,
1311
01:25:26,241 --> 01:25:29,724
you would still do
exactly the same thing
1312
01:25:29,758 --> 01:25:31,413
because you can't
help yourself.
1313
01:25:32,517 --> 01:25:36,724
You would do it because
that's who you are, Rosie.
1314
01:25:39,724 --> 01:25:41,379
Oh, thank God.
1315
01:25:42,758 --> 01:25:45,620
I thank God, Rosie,
that's who you are.
1316
01:25:46,655 --> 01:25:47,689
I love you, baby.
1317
01:25:49,517 --> 01:25:52,931
-This protest ain't doing
nothing but jiving folks.
1318
01:25:52,965 --> 01:25:55,448
Jiving folks into thinking
something gonna change.
1319
01:25:55,482 --> 01:25:57,379
Ain't nothing going to change
1320
01:25:57,413 --> 01:25:59,551
because Mr. Charlie
ain't no closer
1321
01:25:59,586 --> 01:26:01,655
with treating colored folk
riding on them buses now
1322
01:26:01,689 --> 01:26:04,551
than when that lady
started this mess.
1323
01:26:04,586 --> 01:26:06,793
-Well, somebody had
to do something.
1324
01:26:06,827 --> 01:26:08,275
-Yeah, well,
I'm tired of it.
1325
01:26:08,310 --> 01:26:09,758
-I'm tired of it, too, son.
1326
01:26:10,862 --> 01:26:13,344
-See that? It just ain't me.
1327
01:26:13,379 --> 01:26:16,862
-'Cause these feet
long wore out.
1328
01:26:16,896 --> 01:26:19,931
Done seen more miles
1329
01:26:19,965 --> 01:26:21,551
and red sand
1330
01:26:21,586 --> 01:26:22,896
than your'n ever will.
1331
01:26:22,931 --> 01:26:25,034
-Yeah, well, I done
my share of walking.
1332
01:26:25,068 --> 01:26:28,896
-My soul is weary, son.
1333
01:26:29,206 --> 01:26:32,448
Weary of being treated...
1334
01:26:33,379 --> 01:26:35,344
like less than a man.
1335
01:26:38,344 --> 01:26:41,517
-Yeah, old man. I...
I know what you mean.
1336
01:26:41,551 --> 01:26:44,206
-You don't know
what I mean, boy,
1337
01:26:44,551 --> 01:26:46,620
and you don't know
what that lady was saying
1338
01:26:46,655 --> 01:26:48,000
on that bus,
1339
01:26:49,068 --> 01:26:51,793
but I know
what she was saying.
1340
01:26:52,413 --> 01:26:55,000
So I'm gonna
keep on a'walking
1341
01:26:55,034 --> 01:26:57,827
as long as I have to.
1342
01:26:57,862 --> 01:27:01,551
'Cause these feet may be tired,
1343
01:27:01,896 --> 01:27:03,896
but my soul...
1344
01:27:05,034 --> 01:27:06,586
is rested.
1345
01:27:06,620 --> 01:27:08,344
- Another bus.
1346
01:27:08,379 --> 01:27:09,724
- Yeah,
I can see that.
1347
01:27:29,689 --> 01:27:31,413
-Hey, old man.
1348
01:27:31,448 --> 01:27:32,862
Here, let me help you with it.
1349
01:27:32,896 --> 01:27:35,275
Okay?
-Thank you, son.
1350
01:27:36,551 --> 01:27:37,896
-All right.
1351
01:29:37,689 --> 01:29:39,655
-When did you get home?
1352
01:29:39,896 --> 01:29:40,965
-Just got here.
1353
01:29:43,655 --> 01:29:45,172
-What are you doing?
1354
01:29:45,827 --> 01:29:48,896
-Reminding myself
just how lucky I am.
1355
01:29:54,931 --> 01:29:57,172
I remember when we
first started courting.
1356
01:29:58,620 --> 01:29:59,931
You wouldn't come
to the door.
1357
01:30:04,862 --> 01:30:06,137
I knew there was
something about you
1358
01:30:06,172 --> 01:30:07,758
worth coming back for.
1359
01:30:11,068 --> 01:30:13,000
I knew that first day...
1360
01:30:14,620 --> 01:30:16,172
outside the barber shop.
1361
01:30:18,137 --> 01:30:19,965
If I had known
way back then...
1362
01:30:21,793 --> 01:30:23,689
you're gonna turn this city,
1363
01:30:24,862 --> 01:30:27,758
maybe the whole South,
upside down...
1364
01:30:35,068 --> 01:30:38,724
-Would you have still
kept coming back?
1365
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:43,965
-I don't know.
1366
01:30:45,965 --> 01:30:49,689
What you did on that bus
changed a lot things, Rosa.
1367
01:30:51,103 --> 01:30:53,655
Made a lot people think
about themselves...
1368
01:30:55,068 --> 01:30:56,758
about how they treat people,
1369
01:30:57,448 --> 01:30:59,827
about how they live
their lives.
1370
01:30:59,862 --> 01:31:02,758
-I never meant for it
to change us.
1371
01:31:02,793 --> 01:31:03,931
-I know.
1372
01:31:06,275 --> 01:31:07,551
But it did.
1373
01:31:12,655 --> 01:31:14,965
And even though it took me
a while to see it...
1374
01:31:19,620 --> 01:31:21,241
it was a good change.
1375
01:31:33,689 --> 01:31:36,655
-I really didn't do
anything, Parks.
1376
01:31:39,275 --> 01:31:41,827
All this to do about me
and that bus.
1377
01:32:49,241 --> 01:32:52,206
-For most of us alive today,
1378
01:32:52,241 --> 01:32:55,241
in a very real sense,
this journey began
1379
01:32:55,275 --> 01:32:57,034
43 years ago
1380
01:32:57,896 --> 01:33:02,689
when a woman named Rosa Parks
sat down on a bus in Alabama
1381
01:33:03,103 --> 01:33:04,379
and wouldn't get up.
1382
01:33:04,413 --> 01:33:06,793
She's sitting down
with the First Lady tonight,
1383
01:33:06,827 --> 01:33:09,793
and she may get up
or not as she chooses.
90582
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