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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.
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.
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 Rosa Parks Story is a 2002 American television movie written by Paris Qualles and directed by Julie Dash. Angela Bassett portrays Rosa Parks, with Cicely Tyson in a supporting role as her mother. It was broadcast by CBS on February 24, 2002. It received awards from the NAACP and the Black Reel Awards.
Every Black History Month and Juneteenth, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali and Harriet Tubman. They are revered ...
From her famous quotes about the bus to the best Rosa Parks quotes about equality, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" left an indelible mark on society.
With the recent launch of I Am Rosa Parks, all three books in the "Ordinary People Change the World" series appeared simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller List: I Am Rosa Parks at #2; I Am Abraham Lincoln at #6; and I Am Amelia Earhart at #8. [4] Meltzer was featured on many morning news shows to discuss the books, including CBS This ...
A preschool in Florida is facing backlash from the NAACP and the parents of a 2-year-old Black girl, who they allege was made to participate in a "racially unethical" Rosa Parks role play.