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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.
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 ...
On December 1, 1955, after a tiring day at work, Rosa Parks took a seat in the designated "colored" section of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When the "White" section at the front filled up, the driver, James Blake, ordered Parks to relinquish her seat, as was the practice. She refused, and was arrested and jailed.
Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and was arrested for disorderly conduct. Rosa Parks changed the course of history and sparked the civil rights movement on Dec. 1, 1955, when she ...
Sarah Mae Flemming Brown (June 28, 1933 – June 16, 1993 [1]) was an African-American woman who was expelled from a bus in Columbia, South Carolina, seventeen months before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955. Flemming's lawsuit against the bus company played an important role later in the Parks case.
60 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man in Alabama, knowingly violating her city's racial segregation laws.
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
“This Friday, Dec. 1, will be the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, for simply refusing to give up her seat,” said Congresswoman Sewell, who called Parks an ...