Tag: Rosa Parks
Black History Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Black-History-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2001 Black History Month Transcript That’s Medicine Man Ya-Ya reciting the last part of Maulana Karenga’s Libation Statement that opens the CD, “Teach The Children,” a collection of songs and prose poems, that celebrates famous African American figures in our history. There’s Harriet Tubman, […]
Rosa Parks Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rosa-Parks-Day.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 12/1/1999 Rosa Parks Day Transcript Here’s Jim Haskins, with some thoughts for Rosa Parks Day. Rosa Parks, it is said, refused to move from the seat she had taken at the front of that Montgomery, Alabama, bus on December 1st, 1955 because she was, […]