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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.
On the Bus with Rosa Parks is a book of poems by Rita Dove. [1] Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott . The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
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.
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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Memorials to Rosa Parks" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of ...
Parks continued working for social justice throughout the course of her long life, authoring two memoirs, receiving two dozen honorary university doctorates, and winning both the Presidential ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Legacy of Rosa Parks is a 2002 American short documentary film directed by Robert Houston ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The birthday of Rosa Parks February 1: George Washington Carver Day: 1: 2023: