talk about this period, yoruba richen, in detroit.t is -- well, when she died, where the big funeral was. but how detroit shaped her. >> and how she shape detroit. you go there now and you have murals, rosa parks boulevard, her imprint in that city is really palpable. the northern promised land that wa'a think scrubs at all. shis the throught the uprisis thatappen inetroit at tt time, thbiggest uprings,acialprisings the country had en. shes there on t people's tribunal, whi wasut together byhe people droit, the blk peoplef detroitn respse to thillit algis, the youoys who were getng no justicey the police. detrt has, like many citie detroi h a notious retionshipviolent relaonship wh the blk community. and she was part of a ibunal atas at e churchf the blac monna, ilitant black church, very famous church come activist church that she also was a part of and attended. and they put on a tribunal. they had -- to seek justice, some kind of justice for the young boys and to give -- rule these officers were guilty. she worked for john conyers.

the documentary's two directors are yoruba richen and johanna hamilton.way you wanted to tell that story and the stories that you would include in the life of a woman who lived to a very old age? yoruba: we wanted to lead with rosa's voice, with rosa's words. and how do we do that? you know, not only through archival footage, you know, video of her audiotapes that we had access to, but also her writings, which are really in her -- obviously in her own voice, in her own handwriting. so that became a guiding principle of how we made the film. soledad: just a moment ago, jeanne was explaining to us how she would get on twitter annually to really tell everybody the stories of rosa parks that nobody knew. johanna: you know, we like simplistic stories. but history is this long continuum. she'd been an activist for 20 years. she'd been member, you know, the secretary of the naacp for 10 years. she was well aware that they were seeking to bring litigation to end segregation on the busses, and so that particular day, that particular bus driver, and she thought, yo