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"Ballad of Momma Rosa Parks" by Baytown Singers, 1963
Baytown Singers and MGM Records1963
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Rosa Parks' December 1, 1955 refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus led to such successful public action that many consider her act to be the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. The Baytown Singers, a group of folk-singing southern California college students, immortalized her story in song.
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- Title: "Ballad of Momma Rosa Parks" by Baytown Singers, 1963
- Creator: Baytown Singers, MGM Records
- Date Created: 1963
- Location: United States, California, Hollywood
- Subject Keywords: 45 rpm records, Phonograph records, Sound recordings, Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005, Civil rights movements, African Americans
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=352894
- Object Name: Phonograph record
- Object ID: 2006.3.1
- Image ID: THF31933
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of William S. Pretzer
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