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Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after her arrest for boycotting public transportation. Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.
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.
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.
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus on December 1, 1955. After calling her mother from jail, her mom contacted E.D. Nixon, president of the NAACP and secretary of the new Montgomery Improvement Association, who was able to have Clifford Durr (a white lawyer who, with his wife, Virginia Durr, was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement) pay the fine to ...
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus marked the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest by urging Congress to support a bill that would declare December 1, “Rosa Parks Day,” a federal ...
The post CBC pushes for Rosa Parks to be the first woman to have federal holiday appeared first on TheGrio. ... Dec. 1, will be the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest in Montgomery, Alabama ...
Rosa Parks Day is a holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks, celebrated in the U.S. state of Missouri on her birthday, February 4, in Michigan and California on the first Monday after her birthday, and in Ohio and Oregon on the day she was arrested, December 1. Rosa Parks Day was created by the Michigan State Legislature and ...
Share these messages from the Civil Rights icon on Rosa Parks Day or anytime you need a dose of inspiration! ... When she refused, she was arrested for breaking the city's racial segregation laws ...