Sunday 4 October 2026 · tip 7782 · Rosa Parks series · #139
Rosa Parks #139: 1977 King Center full-employment conference
A January 14, 1977 statement prepared for Coretta Scott King’s birthday-program press conference retrospectively names Rosa Parks among speakers at the King Center’s January 13 full-employment conference in Atlanta — linking her to the national jobs-policy campaign. Prepared statement ≠ proof of verbatim delivery; Parks’s own remarks are not preserved here.
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Evidence craft: LOC mss859430175 King Center subject folder. Leaf 26 headed STATEMENT BY MRS. CORETTA SCOTT KING / ANNUAL BIRTHDAY PROGRAM PRESS CONFERENCE / EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH / JANUARY 14, 1977 — enumerates “SPEAKERS INCLUDING … THE MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, MRS. ROSA PARKS.” Leaf 25 tentative schedule heads January 13–15, 1977 but misprints “THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1976”; Thursday fell on Jan 13 in 1977, and the next-day statement calls the opening “yesterday,” so 1976 is a printing error. The schedule does not itself name Parks; the following-day statement does.
Limits held: strongest source is next-day King Center retrospective in King’s name — good evidence the Center reported her speaking; does not establish exact speech, time, audience, workshops, breakfast, or whether the typed statement was delivered as written. No separate recording or contemporary newspaper account of her remarks found in this review. Series now #118–#139.