Hillary in Montgomery AL - Dec. 1, 2015 60th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott

[yallerdawg]

National Bar Association

The public meeting on December 1st will feature Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Esq. and will include great Civil Rights leaders of the era and the present, Fred Gray and Benjamin L. Crump, along with the first African American woman to lead the American Bar Association, Paulette Brown.

11:00-1:00pm Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church – Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton: The Role of Lawyers in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery Improvement Association

The MIA was organized by Montgomery, Alabama ministers and leaders on December 5, 1955 after the overwhelming success of a one-day boycott by the city’s black citizens who refused to ride the segregated city buses. The boycott was held in protest of the Dec. 1 arrest of Rosa Parks, a local seamstress, who refused to surrender her seat on the bus white passenger. With its president, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young and largely unknown Southern Baptist pastor at that time, the MIA would lead Montgomery’s Black citizens in a 382-day standoff with the City of Montgomery in opposition to its segregationist policies.

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[riversedge]

1. I am sure Hillary thinks this will be an honor to speak with this group. Thanks for post

[Cha]

2. Good timing.. these anniversaries are important to see where this country was and that we're still

on our journey. Racism is not over just because Barack Obama was elected President.

And, anyone who said it bring is not very bright.. willfully or otherwise. It did bring out a lot of racists that were hiding under their rocks.

Thank you, yallerdawg~

[yallerdawg]

3. I called up the official Alabama Democratic Party today.

Their office is about 5 blocks from Dexter Avenue where Hillary will be speaking.

They knew nothing more about it than what we heard on the news.

There is no mention on the website. No mention of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. No mention of Rosa Parks. No mention of Hillary.

Hillary will be talking to the Alabama Democrats tomorrow.

They - we - belong to no organized party in the State of Alabama.

This is what the Republican Party would like to do to the USA!

[Cha]

5. WOW! I know of one other Hillary supporter in Alabama..

"stonecutter".. do you know of him on DU?

[msrizzo]

4. Awesome...

Can't wait to see the footage later.

[Cha]

6. KICK!

[riversedge]

7. WP: Hillary was invited to be keynote speaker at Rosa Parks ceremony-What an honor....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/01/clinton-celebrates-rosa-parks-anniversary-but-declares-our-work-isnt-finished/
Clinton celebrates Rosa Parks anniversary, but declares ‘our work isn’t finished’

By Philip Rucker December 1 at 3:43 PM


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Hillary Clinton reflects on Rosa Parks
At a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton mused that history is often made "by seemingly ordinary people doing something extraordinary." (Reuters)




MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Hillary Clinton used the 60th anniversary of a key episode in America’s march for civil rights to deliver a call to action here Tuesday for the injustices that still permeate society.

The Democratic presidential candidate paid tribute to a black seamstress named Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger in 1955 spawned the Montgomery bus boycott, and declared, “Our work isn’t finished.”

“There are still injustices perpetrated every day across our country – sometimes in spite of the law; sometimes, unfortunately, in keeping with it,” Clinton said. “There are still too many Americans – especially too many African Americans – whose experience of the justice system is not what it should be.”

Clinton delivered her remarks from the pulpit of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, one block from the Alabama State Capitol. It was in this church’s basement 60 years ago that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the bus boycott that began with Parks’s act of defiance.

Clinton’s keynote address was part of an anniversary celebration organized by the National Bar Association, the nation’s largest association of black attorneys. The event spotlighted the civil rights legacies of lawyers such as Fred D. Gray, who at age 24 represented Parks. He gave a moving speech before Clinton took the pulpit.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claps with attorney Benjamin L. Crump before she speaks during the National Bar Association's 60th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 1. (Erik S. Lesser/EPA)

Clinton was introduced to great fanfare by Benjamin L. Crump, the association’s president and the attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family, and she likened his remarks to a “revival.” Quoting from the Bible, Clinton said: “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad.”..........






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