rosa parks

     

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later calle "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement".

Trivia about rosa parks

  • Both Detroit, her home now, and Montgomery, Alabama, her home in 1955, have streets named for her
  • A city bus is part of the exhibits at the Montgomery, Alabama library & museum named for this person
  • In 1997 the American Public Transportation Association gave this woman its first Lifetime Achievement Award
  • History was made on December 1, 1955 when bus driver James Blake called the police & had this person arrested
  • She was the 31st person--& the first woman--to lie in state or honor in the U.S. Capitol
  • In a famous incident on Dec, 1, 1955 she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat
  • This Montgomery seamstress was thrown off a bus one other time before her famous Dec. 1, 1955 incident
  • Marla Gibbs, Nichelle Nichols & this bus-riding heroine have all been Alpha Kappa Alpha honorary members
  • (Hi. I'm Martin Luther King III.) In 1955, my father led a bus boycott in Montgomery after this woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat
  • The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993
  • The modern civil rights movement began in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus
  • "She Would Not Be Moved" is the story of this woman & the Montgomery bus boycott of the 1950s
  • This seamstress born Feb. 4, 1913 took a long bus ride home out of Detroit in 2005
  • In 1955 this NAACP member was arrested & fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama
  • "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"
  • This woman missing here quietly gets from "a" to "B" after a Supreme Court ruling in 1956
  • A choice she made on Dec. 1, 1955 would lead to a Supreme Court ruling & Martin Luther King's rise to fame
  • She's the civil rights pioneer seen here
  • On Dec. 1st, 1955, 4 blacks were asked to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery; 3 did, she didn't
  • Of that famous incident in 1955, she said, "All I was doing was trying to get home from work"
  • In 1943 this woman who later made a famous refusal was elected secretary of the Montgomery NAACP
  • Shaw College is among the many schools that gave honorary degrees to this woman who inspired a bus boycott
  • In 1975 she commented on a 1955 event by saying, "My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work"
  • A street in Montgomery, Alabama is named for this woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus