6/29/2023 0 Comments Rosa parks early life![]() It predated the bus incident, spanned decades and was inextricably bound with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Black politicians in Washington. After her death in 2005, the New York Times called her “ the accidental matriarch of the civil rights movement”.īut there was nothing accidental about it, the 96-minute documentary contends, demonstrating her activism was sweeping and expansive. This one action is what she is known for in countless school textbooks and even an episode of the BBC’s science fiction series Doctor Who. ![]() The sequence makes for a memorable opening to The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks, the first documentary feature about Parks, streaming on Peacock from Wednesday.īased on a biography by Jeanne Theoharis, the film is a riposte to popular culture’s reductive habit of framing a person’s life and legacy in a single headline – in Parks’s case, the quiet seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, one winter evening in 1955. It is a redemptive moment amid the profanity of a civil rights hero being paraded like a curiosity for the cameras. ![]() ![]() But the fourth panelist, entertainer Nipsey Russell, who is Black, said he would have to disqualify himself because he marched with Parks in Selma, adding: “Miss Rosa Parks is 10-foot tall, she’s a legend and a hero in the democracy of the United States, not just among Black people.” ![]()
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