Dec 2, 2015
For KGNU Claudia Cragg speaks here
with Sheila McCauley Keys, author of
'Our
Auntie Rosa', who is the niece of Rosa Parks for the 60th
Anniversary of her aunt's famous 'bus incident'. McCauley Keys
shares the family's remembrances of the woman who was not only the
mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother figure
to them as well. Her brave act on a bus in
Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, was just one moment
in a life lived with great humility and decency.
After the deaths of Rosa Parks's
husband and brother, her nieces and nephews became her only family
and the closest that she would ever experience to having biological
sons and daughters. In this book, they share with readers what she
shared with them about her experiences growing up in a racist
South, her deep dedication to truth and justice, and the personal
values she held closest to her heart.