{Rosa Parks

By: Hailey Schroeder

Born: February 4,1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama

Died: October 24, 2005 at age 92 in Detroit

Attended high school at Industrial school for girls in Montgomery until she left to go to Alabama State College for Negroes for secondary education

Married Raymond Parks at age 19

Background

“We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down."

Rosa and her husband joined the NAACP Worked closely with President Nixon The goal was to improve the ways of African-

Americans in the South This program worked on many cases such as rape

and murder Rosa Parks stated “We didn't seem to have too many

successes. It was more a matter of trying to challenge the powers that be, and to let it be known that we did not wish to continue being second-class citizens."

NAACP

Rosa and her husband also worked as seamstress together.

While working, Rosa came across Clifford and Virginia Durr

Clifford and Virginia took Rosa Highlander Folk School in Tennessee The school trained social activists. At the school, Rosa learned ways to

protest against segregation After Parks returned back home she was

more determined to get rid of Jim Crow Laws

Seamstress

Rosa Parks, 42 year old boarded Montgomery City bus

Refused to give her seat up to a white man

Rosa was than arrested by two police man for not obeying the Jim Crow Laws.

President Nixon and Clifford Durr bailed Rosa out of jail.

The word of what had happened to Rosa spread very quickly

December 1, 1955

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Over 35,000 handbills were made and announced to bus boycott

After the boycott worked for one day, the Montgomery Improvement Association was put into place President of this Association was Dr. Martin Luther King

Jr. During the boycott, African Americans decided only to

carpool, take cab, or walk. Some people walked up to 20 miles a day

“The Supreme Court ruled that segregation on city buses were unconstitutional on November 13, 1956”

Although, the boycott did not end until November 20, 1956. They were waiting until the court written order came into Montgomery.

The boycott lasted 382 days Known as the “largest boycott in American History”

17,000 African Americans participated in this boycott Rosa Parks was named “Mother of the Civil Rights

Movement”

Montgomery Bus Boycott

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With all the threats that occurred during the boycott, Rosa and her family moved to Detroit Stayed a seamstress and was a spokesperson

for Civil Rights After a year, came back to Montgomery. Worked as a secretary for U.S. Representative

John Conyers Co-founded with the Rosa and Raymond Parks

Institute for Self-Development

After Boycott

Presidential Medal of Freedom "she stood up for the ideals of equality and justice and

demanded that the rest of us do the same.“ Congressional Gold Medal In 2001 opened up the Rosa Parks Museum and Library Each year in Parks honor, the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference Award presents Rosa Parks Freedom Award Rosa Parks was the only women and second of African

Americans to lie in state at the Capitol

Awards

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Video

Academy of achievement . (1961). Retrieved from http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/index.html

Bio.. (2005). Retrieved from http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/rosa-parks.html

Chaberski, C. (2012, November 30). This day in history for december 1 — rosa parks arrested, and more. Retrieved from http://tsminteractive.com/this-day-in-history-for-december-1-rosa-parks-arrested/

Gaillard, F. (2007, March 14). Encyclopedia of alabama. Retrieved from http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1111

Pretzer, W. S. (2002, February). The rosa parks bus. Retrieved from http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/pic/2002/busmore.html

History. (1996). Retrieved from http://www.history.com/topics/rosa-parks Pettinger, T. (n.d.). Biography online. Retrieved from http://

www.biographyonline.net/humanitarian/rosa-parks.html Stevens, P. (2006). Rosa parks . Retrieved from http://

gardenofpraise.com/ibdrosa.htm Story behind the bus. (2002). Retrieved from

http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/rosaparks/story.asp

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