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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.
Edna May Griffin (1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American civil rights pioneer and human rights activist.Known as the "Rosa Parks of Iowa", her court battle against the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines in 1948, State of Iowa v.
The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee. Founded in 1932 by activist Myles Horton , educator Don West , and Methodist minister James A. Dombrowski , it was originally located in the community of ...
On December 1, 1955, the 42-year-old Parks, who was headed home from her job as a seamstress at a Montgomery, Alabama, department store, was ordered to give up her bus seat to a white man. When ...
The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development was created in honor of Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks (1903–1977). The Institute was co-founded in February 1987 [1] by Rosa Parks and her long-time friend Elaine Eason Steele. It has its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan [2] and Washington, DC. [3]
On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move from her seat in the black area of the bus she was traveling on to make way for a white passenger who was standing. [4]: 27 Parks, a civil rights organizer, had intended to instigate a reaction from white citizens and authorities. That night, with Parks' permission ...
Horsford, a co-sponsor of the Rosa Parks Day bill, told reporters that the civil rights activist’s arrest was “monumental for our nation and for the fight for civil rights for Black Americans ...
The Rosa Parks Institute or Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, a youth organization in Detroit, Michigan; Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation, a foundation in Michigan; Rosa Parks Middle School, a school in Montgomery County, Maryland; Rosa L. Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts, a high school in Paterson, New Jersey