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1. Wide exterior Nelson Mandela Museum
2. Poster at entrance of museum showing photos of Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks with the slogan (English) “Dear Mr Mandela, Dear Mrs Parks”
3. Close-up of poster with photos of Parks and Mandela
4. Wide interior of exhibition, photo board with photos and letters from children to Parks and Mandela
5. Close of child’s letter
6. Close part of letter reading (English) “Dear Mr Mandela, Dear Mrs Parks”
7. Set up of Gregory Reed and Richard Manson
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gregory Reed, Rosa Parks’ former lawyer and man behind the exhibition:
“Mrs Parks would have been very, I would have said, proud of the concept of her legacy being expanded between two continents. In 1990, she met Mr Mandela and the only person he could recognise when he came to the US was Rosa Parks.”
9. Display with photo of Parks seated on bus
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Manson, Chairman, “Keeper of the Word” Foundation:
“They talk about things that are important, not only important then, but also important now and they’re issues having to do with values and faith and things that really make our countries successful. It has also made them successful as people that are very concerned about the lives, development and freedom of other peoples.”
11. Display with photo of Mandela with a small boy
12. Interior of exhibition
STORYLINE:
A new exhibition of letters written by children to the anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela and to US civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks has opened at the Nelson Mandela Museum in South Africa’s eastern cape province.
Dating back to the late 1950s, the collection brings together photos and hand-written letters that children addressed to two of the world’s best known human rights campaigners.
The exhibition coincides with Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations and is housed in the new museum that overlooks the village of Qunu, Mandela’s rural homestead and venue of this year’s celebrations.
The inspiration for “Dear Mr Mandela… Dear Mrs Parks: Children’s Letters, Global Lessons” came from the hundreds of children around the world who wrote letters to Mandela and the late Rosa Parks, both internationally renowned for their work in human rights.
“Mrs Parks would have been very, I would have said, proud of the concept of her legacy being expanded between two continents,” said Gregory Reed, Rosa Parks’ former lawyer and the person behind the exhibition.
Rosa Parks gave impetus to the civil rights movement in the US when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man in 1955 – the same year that representatives of the people of South Africa gathered to formulate the Freedom Charter in Kliptown, Johannesburg.
Mandela met Parks in Detroit, Michigan, in 1990 when he toured the United States after his release from prison.
In February 1990, Mandela emerged from 27 years as a political prisoner to direct a remarkably peaceful transition from tyranny to democracy as apartheid crumbled, with an unwavering commitment to reconciliation.
Mandela shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with FW de Klerk, the last apartheid president.
The exhibition was developed when the Michigan State University Museum and the Nelson Mandela Museum were awarded one of the first four grants from a new American programme.
The programme by the American Association of Museums, Washington, DC, and the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is designed to strengthen connections between people in the US and abroad through museum-based exchanges.
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