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Rosa Parks: My Story. Published in 1992, in the later years of her life, Rosa Parks: My Story is the first-hand account of Parks' life. It talks about her entire life: from her childhood in ...
Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter. Her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher. When she was two years old, she and ...
Rosa Parks (born Feb. 4, 1913) was an African-American woman living during a very difficult time in American history. In the 1950s, she lived in Montgomery, Alabama, which was a place that ...
When and where Rosa Parks was born. What life was like for African-Americans in the southern U.S. during the 1950s. The action African-Americans took following Ms. Parks' lead. The civil rights ...
Rosa Parks became a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement after her arrest on December 1, 1955. Riding home from work on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, she was ordered to surrender her seat to a white passenger after the driver moved the dividing line between the two segregated sections of the bus. Despite sitting in the legally acceptable ...
Arrest of Rosa Parks: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus for violating the city's segregation laws. While she did not originally violate the law when she took her seat, the bus driver moved the dividing line between the black and white sections of the bus. He did so in order to give the white ...
In March 1999, lawyers for Rosa Parks filed a civil suit against the musical group OutKast and LaFace Records for using her name without permission in their hit song, "Rosa Parks" (1998). After several years of dragging through the courts, OutKast and LaFace settled (while admitting no wrong doing) in 2005.
In 1964, Rosa Parks worked on John Conyers, Jr.'s congressional campaign in Michigan, and through her connection with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Conyers was able to secure King's endorsement. With his win, Rosa Parks was given a job as a secretary and receptionist in his Detroit office, and she did the day to day constituent work for him in ...
Question: Who was Rosa Parks's best friend? The Bus Arrest: Rosa Parks rose to national fame in 1955 when she was arrested for violating local segregation laws. On a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, she refused to move when the bus driver moved back the sign separating the two segregated areas of the bus. That move put Rosa in the whites-only section.
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