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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.
The Rosa L. (McCauley) and Raymond Parks Flat, or simply the Rosa Parks Flat, is a two-story brick duplex located at 3201-3203 Virginia Park Street in Detroit, Michigan. The building is significant as the home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks , who lived in the first floor flat with her husband Raymond from 1961 to 1988.
The United States Immigration Station is a government building located at 333 Mount Elliott Street in Detroit, Michigan.Until March 2024, it was known as the Rosa Parks Federal Building, [2] [3] and houses the Detroit Field Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [4]
Rosa Parks Day was created by the Michigan State Legislature and first celebrated in 1998. [1] The California State Legislature followed suit in 2000. [ 2 ] The holiday was first designated in the U.S. state of Ohio championed by Joyce Beatty , advocate who helped Ohio's legislation pass to honor the late leader. [ 3 ]
Unit 634 was home to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, her husband Raymond, and her mother, Leona McCauley, during the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to 1956. The building was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 30, 1989, and the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 2001. [1] [2]
Daisy Myers 1957. Daisy D. Myers (February 10, 1925 – December 5, 2011) was an African-American woman who lived with her family in Levittown, Pennsylvania, reportedly designed to be an all-white town, beginning in 1957.
The Rosa Parks Museum is located on the Troy University at Montgomery satellite campus, in Montgomery, Alabama. [1] It has information, exhibits, and some artifacts from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. This museum is named after civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who is known for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person on a city bus. [2]
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist, lived in the towers from 1994 until her death in 2005. Coleman A. Young, mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1994. Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater, lived in the apartments during her infamous 1994 assault. Christoper Paul Curtis, Newbery Medal Award-winning author of Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham ...