ROSA PARKSBY TinsleyN.Thompon

HOW ROSA PARKS HELPED PEOPLE She got on a bus and set in the front

were the white people were post to set and they said if she didn’t move they would throw her off the bus but she didn’t move and that’s the way she helped us.

FACT ABOUT ROSA PARKS Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born

on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received many accolades during her lifetime, including the NAACP's highest award.

PICTURES OF ROSA PARKS

PICTURES OF HER SITTING ON THE BUS

MORE FACTS ABOUT ROSA PARKSIn 1955, Rosa Parks was an African

American living in Montgomery, Alabama -- a city with laws that strictly segregated blacks and whites. On 1 December 1955, after her day of work as a seamstress at a local ...

HOW SHE DIED In 2004, Rosa was diagnosed with

progressive dementia and died the following year on October 24, 2005. Three days after Rosa's death, all of the city buses in Montgomery and Detroit reserved their front seats with black ribbons in her honor, and remained this way until Rosa was put into her final resting place. The journey to the cemetery was a long one, one that recapped everything she stood for and believed in her whole life.

STUFF ON ROSA PARKS Parks' act of defiance became an

important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.

BIOGRAPHY Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in

Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley and Leona Edwards, respectively, a carpenter and a teacher, and was of African-American, Cherokee-Creek,[2] and Scots-Irish ancestry.[3] Parks' great grandfather was a Scottish-Irishman. She was small, even for a child, and she suffered poor health and had chronic tonsillitis. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside Montgomery, Alabama. There she grew up on a farm with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester, and began her lifelong membership in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She attended rural schools[4] until the age of eleven, then enrolled at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery where she took academic and vocational courses.

REMEMBER Rosa parks is not a bad

woman she was very nice but she helped us a lot and she will be remembered and her legion will go on and on.