Detroit Historical Society | Rosa Parks Reverse Freedom Tour Press Conference, July 28, 1992 @DetroitHistoricalSociety | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
2015.009.218
U-Matic tape containing footage of the July 28, 1992 press conference at the City County Building with Mayor Coleman A. Young and Rosa Parks concerning the Reverse Freedom Tour program—an educational program sponsored by the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development.
The recording begins with Mayor Young taking the podium. He then recognizes in the program who are present as the camera pans around the table. He then discusses the program, its aims, its history, and Detroit’s role in civil rights history. He mentions Greenfield Village and Windsor’s The John Freeman Walls Historic Site as local site that the students will visit. Mayor Young then presents five checks to Mayor Coleman Young on behalf of donors who each stand in recognition.
Rosa Parks then takes the podium to thank the donors, the mayor, and finally the press for supporting the program. Mayor Young then returns to the podium and makes a joke about Parks’ gratitude toward the press.
Young then introduces Elaine Steel of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. She in turn recognizes more people in the room for their participation in the project, then details the local itinerary of the tour, including a feast, fashion show, visits to local historical sites, and a panel discussion featuring Rosa Parks, Dick Gregory, Julian Bond, Jamil Al-Amin, Dr. Roberta Hughes Wright, Joann Watson, and Bryan E. Walls.
Young returns to the podium to introduce Congressman John Conyers. Conyers praises the program and connects it to the upcoming election. Next, Young introduces Michigan State Senator Virgil Smith, who reflects on the importance of educating young people about the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Young then takes questions from those assembled. These questions involve the demographics of the donors, and a recent radio interview which Young gave where the host did not know what “Jim Crow” meant. Off-camera members of the press then ask Parks a series of questions, including her reasons for sponsoring the program, what she most wants the young people involved in the program to take away from it, and voter turn-out among young African Americans.
Young, Parks, and the program’s donors then pose for photos for the press across a series of cuts.
After another cut, Young is back at the podium where he is answering questions about union negotiations with the city’s workers, including those of the Emergency Medical Service.
The recording is on a U-Matic UCA 30 tape, with a handwritten label marked, "Rosa Parks Reverse Freedom Tour P.C. 1, 7-28-1992." The tape is housed in a black plastic latching 3M case with a matching handwritten label.
2015.009.218
U-Matic tape containing footage of the July 28, 1992 press conference at the City County Building with Mayor Coleman A. Young and Rosa Parks concerning the Reverse Freedom Tour program—an educational program sponsored by the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development.
The recording begins with Mayor Young taking the podium. He then recognizes in the program who are present as the camera pans around the table. He then discusses the program, its aims, its history, and Detroit’s role in civil rights history. He mentions Greenfield Village and Windsor’s The John Freeman Walls Historic Site as local site that the students will visit. Mayor Young then presents five checks to Mayor Coleman Young on behalf of donors who each stand in recognition.
Rosa Parks then takes the podium to thank the donors, the mayor, and finally the press for supporting the program. Mayor Young then returns to the podium and makes a joke about Parks’ gratitude toward the press.
Young then introduces Elaine Steel of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. She in turn recognizes more people in the room for their participation in the project, then details the local itinerary of the tour, including a feast, fashion show, visits to local historical sites, and a panel discussion featuring Rosa Parks, Dick Gregory, Julian Bond, Jamil Al-Amin, Dr. Roberta Hughes Wright, Joann Watson, and Bryan E. Walls.
Young returns to the podium to introduce Congressman John Conyers. Conyers praises the program and connects it to the upcoming election. Next, Young introduces Michigan State Senator Virgil Smith, who reflects on the importance of educating young people about the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Young then takes questions from those assembled. These questions involve the demographics of the donors, and a recent radio interview which Young gave where the host did not know what “Jim Crow” meant. Off-camera members of the press then ask Parks a series of questions, including her reasons for sponsoring the program, what she most wants the young people involved in the program to take away from it, and voter turn-out among young African Americans.
Young, Parks, and the program’s donors then pose for photos for the press across a series of cuts.
After another cut, Young is back at the podium where he is answering questions about union negotiations with the city’s workers, including those of the Emergency Medical Service.
The recording is on a U-Matic UCA 30 tape, with a handwritten label marked, "Rosa Parks Reverse Freedom Tour P.C. 1, 7-28-1992." The tape is housed in a black plastic latching 3M case with a matching handwritten label.
