Rosa Parks was known as the queen mother of the movement. She sat down so that her people could stand up,

The queen mother of the movement has passed from earth to glory,

I actually sat out in the audience a few times with my mother.

My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who were Taft Republicans, and communist cousins,

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

That was a joyous feeling,