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English: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott.She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott.
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned all discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, including in schools, employment, and public accommodations. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 restored and protected voting rights for minorities and authorized oversight of registration and elections in areas with historic under ...
Each February 4, on her birthday, we honor the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" with Rosa Parks Day, celebrating her remarkable bravery and determination, which helped change the course of ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Articles relating to the American activist Rosa Parks (1913–2005). Subcategories. This category has the ...
Manuscript Specialist Adrienne Cannon tells me that the Rosa Parks Papers collection was gifted to the Library of Congress in 2016 by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Kept in a controlled ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item ... Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Rosa Parks" The following 11 pages are in this ...