Cristina+Rosa+Parks

Rosa Parks
http://www.africanaonline.com/rosa_parks.htm http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1


 * Born Febuary 4, 1913 Tuskegee, Alabama
 * Mothers name Leona Edwards/McCauley and was also a teacher
 * Fathers name James McCauley and was a carpenter but left the fanily for work
 * Rosa's mother, Rosa and her brother Sylvester moved to the country to live with their grandparents in Pine Level
 * Went to a samll school in Pine Level but it only went to 6th grade because no one in those days needed to go to school after that.
 * When she turned 11 she enrolled into Montgomery's Miss Whites School.
 * Rosa's mother couldnt pay for the tuiton so in order for Rosa to stay she would wash the desks, sweep the floor, empty the trash cans and clean the backboards if the lesson wasnt needed for the next day.
 * Rosa married Raymond Parks December 18, 1932/ Rosa was barley 20 and Raymond was almost 29
 * Raymond was a big part of helping ending segregation that he joined NAAP(National Association for the Advancement)
 * On December 1, 1955 Rosa got arrested for not giving her seat to a white man on the bus
 * She got arrested and when that happend a boycott lasted 380 days(13 months)
 * the boycott was basically that no one would ride the buses because 70% of the buses fares were from the black community.
 * December 20, 1956 justices declared that segregation of the Montgomery bus's was illegal and the segregation laws in the south ended.
 * She moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1957
 * Rosa and her family still got harassed even though the segregation laws ended.
 * She won many awards for the great thing she did and was awarded my Martin Luther King jr.
 * Rosa Lee McCauley Parks died October 24, 2005