Manuscript/Mixed Material Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987
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Image 41 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Filled with satisfaction for the day and determination for the next Today and tomorrow consistently Let us climb the hill of progress and development Progressiveness is another name for a seeking mind…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 42 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 NSA The New Freedom Bell Bound books contain the signatures of 300000 Americans who rang the bell and also signed the Declaration of Peace which accompanied it The declaration contains a vow…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 43 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 A proud symbol The original Pennsylvania State House Bell was forged at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1752 and shipped to Philadelphia the same year Since it cracked almost immediately it was…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 44 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Here were the members of NSA joining the local citizens for what would become a scene recreated throughout the many states A bell on a platform local civic leaders professors and practitioners…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 45 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 The New Freedom Bell stands silent vigil as some 10000 people gather in Boston Commons to hear Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis open his bid for US President Many of the spectators were…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 46 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 presentation of the New Freedom Bell characterizes your dedication to reawakening the spirit of the Founding Fathers It inspires hope in every Americans heart for a peaceful world in which we can…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 47 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Some of the many thousands and thousands of children ring the New Freedom Bell during its 44city tour perform at the ceremony if front of the Buffalo City Hall people in attendance…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 48 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 I think we are lucky to have a bell for freedom said 12yearold Danielle Mesinger after ringing it Added 10yearold Dorian Dabney It was big enough to wake everybody up And 13year…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 49 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 A familiar scene takes place in Cleveland as NSA members gather with city officials to open the New Freedom Bell ceremony with the posting of the colors and the singing of the…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 50 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 The late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington bears a wide grin as he leads the ringing of the New Freedom Bell in that citys Daley Plaza Daley Plaza is near City Hall and…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 51 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 An honor guard from nearby Fort Knox presents the colors to open the ceremony in Louisville where the bell stopped after Indianapolis St Louis Special Assistant Jack Keane presents a proclamation of…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 52 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 NSA Minutemen stand vigil over the New Freedom Bell as the dome of the Denver Capitol glisten in the background engraved sun A famous story he said has it that there was…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 53 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Seattle Mayor Charles Royer rings the New Freedom Bell from close up after a motorcycle police escort brought it into the heart of the city and especially in the large cities the…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 54 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 would gather in Philadelphia for the same reason These two national meetings spanning the two coasts of the United States would prove to be representative of the scope of the movement that…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 55 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 the bell when it was not being utilized for public presentations If the bell were parked for a night whether inside or out regardless of the city a team of young men…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 56 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 The ceremony itself took place in front of the Capitol from 400 to 500 pm June 2 Portland Oregon The arrival of the New Freedom Bell witnessed a week of overcast skies…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 57 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 In front of San Francisco City Hall a crowd gathers for the ceremony for the New Freedom Bell officiated by Mayor Dianne Feinstein June 6 San Francisco California In the mist of…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 58 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Los Angeles City Hall across the street from the Los Angeles Times The NSA replica Statue of Liberty which had been constructed for the organizations general meeting in New York on Liberty…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 59 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 The Westwood Campus of the University of California at Los Angeles draws students at lunchtime to ring the New Freedom Bell A combined mens and womens chorus of NSA members performs at…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 60 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 The NSA replica Statue of Liberty joins the New Freedom Bell at Long Beachs Shoreline Park for the ceremony The Queen Mary is moored in the harbor 56 the citys elders and…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 61 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 NSA members and local Santa Monica residents ring the New Freedom Bell one last time before it departs south for San Diego The ceremony was held outside the NSA World Peace Ikeda…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 62 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 The New Freedom Trail April 28 â July 3 1987 Seattle Washington Portland Oregon Sacramento California San Francisco California Los Angeles California San Diego California Las Vegas Nevada Salt Lake City Utah…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 63 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Los Angeles City Council members Gloria Molina Rober Farrell and John Ferraro present a proclamation saluting NSA to General Director Williams San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein rings the New Freedom Bell in…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 64 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley tolls the bell high and loud Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles features NSA performers during a pregame show which was followed by the presentation of the New…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 65 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 A cry for no more Alamos resounds as the New Freedom Trail reaches San Antonio Texas site of one of the nations bloodiest battles Raleigh North Carolina home to three US Presidents…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 66 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 In the nations capital left to right Senator Howell Heflin Senator Quentin Burdick Congressman Daniel Akaka and Congressman Matthew Martinez open their days agenda by ringing the New Freedom Bell Balloons rise…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 67 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Border Field State Park at the USMexico boundary hosts a ceremony where citizens of two nations are able to ring the New Freedom Bell across the border In Arise the Sun of…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 68 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 echoing Mr Ikedas words You are the New World of rainbows a rainbow of humanityall colors shapes and sizes using whatever mode one may to describe human beings Later the bell was…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 69 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 In the Land of Enchantment New Mexico the New Freedom Bell is rung in Albuquerque where it began its journey toward the South Prior to the ceremony local NSA members had personally…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 70 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 A cry of no more Alamos resounds symbolically as the New Freedom Bell an international ambassador of peaceis unveiled in San Antonio In front of the Alamo symbol of the savagery of…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 71 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 the inclusion of the phrase no more Alamos in NSAs Declaration of Peace which accompanied the New Freedom Bell Because of the citys historic significance and because of Mayor Henry Cisneross longstanding…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 72 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 proclamation was read by City Councilman Charles Tandy who quoted the famous Revolutionary War saying The price of liberty is eternal vigilance in asking the participants to exercise your liberty and your…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 73 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 After a coasttocoast journey then a trip south toward the Mexican border and finally a return leg eastward through the American Southwest the New Freedom Bell had entered the Old South the…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 74 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 in the world where individuals have more personal freedom or where there is more opportunity for all people to achieve and to excel in the pursuit of the desires of the individual…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 75 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 to speak at the scheduled New Freedom Bell ceremony A busy woman Mrs King does not instantly commit to an invitation to a public event Interestingly an NSA member employed at the…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 76 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 capital of the Old South the New Freedom Bell took a spur here to Raleigh where many of the states top leaders gathered for the ceremony including Governor Martin Lieutenant Governor Robert…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 77 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Americas birthplace Independence Hall in Philadelphia was constructed between 1732 and 1756 as the State House of the Pennsylvania Province It was planned and designed by the lawyer Andrew Hamilton and is…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 78 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Washington District of Columbia in honor of the first President Through the years the largely Englishspeaking colonists had sought ways to sever their ties with the Old World largely over issues of…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 79 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 Metropolitan Washington DC Police Chief Maurice Turner rings the Freedom Bell at Western Plaza with NSA General Director Williams Western Plaza in the center of Washington DC is the site for a…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
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Image 80 of Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987 To close out the day the New Freedom Bell was positioned at the Reflecting Pool with the Washington Monument glistening in its still waters from the distance Behind the monument stood the…- Contributor: Parks, Rosa
- Date: 1987-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Rosa Parks Papers: Events, 1951-2005; Featuring or honoring Parks; 1987
Names
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
Headings
- - Civil rights--United States
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - African Americans--Religion
- - African Americans--Segregation
- - African Americans--Social conditions
- - Civil rights demonstrations--United States
- - Civil rights movements--United States
- - Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956
- - Race discrimination--Southern States
- - Race discrimination--United States
- - Segregation--Southern States
- - Segregation--United States
- - Southern States--Race relations
- - Southern States--Social conditions
- - United States--Race relations
- - United States--Social conditions
- - Civil rights activists
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- mss85943, box 19
- series: Events, 1951-2005
Source Collection
- Rosa Parks papers
Repository
- Manuscript Division
Digital Id
Online Format
- online text
- image