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ROSA PARKS

ROSA PARKS. BY TinsleyN.Thompon. How Rosa Parks helped people . She got on a bus and set in the front were the white people were post to set and they said if she didn’t move they would throw her off the bus but she didn’t move and that’s the way she helped us. Fact about Rosa Parks.

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ROSA PARKS

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  1. ROSA PARKS BY TinsleyN.Thompon

  2. How Rosa Parks helped people • She got on a bus and set in the front were the white people were post to set and they said if she didn’t move they would throw her off the bus but she didn’t move and that’s the way she helped us.

  3. Fact about Rosa Parks • Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received many accolades during her lifetime, including the NAACP's highest award.

  4. Pictures of Rosa Parks

  5. Pictures of her sitting on the bus

  6. More facts about Rosa Parks In 1955, Rosa Parks was an African American living in Montgomery, Alabama -- a city with laws that strictly segregated blacks and whites. On 1 December 1955, after her day of work as a seamstress at a local ...

  7. How she died • In 2004, Rosa was diagnosed with progressive dementia and died the following year on October 24, 2005. Three days after Rosa's death, all of the city buses in Montgomery and Detroit reserved their front seats with black ribbons in her honor, and remained this way until Rosa was put into her final resting place. The journey to the cemetery was a long one, one that recapped everything she stood for and believed in her whole life.

  8. Stuff on Rosa Parks • Parks' act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.

  9. Biography • Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley and Leona Edwards, respectively, a carpenter and a teacher, and was of African-American, Cherokee-Creek,[2] and Scots-Irish ancestry.[3] Parks' great grandfather was a Scottish-Irishman. She was small, even for a child, and she suffered poor health and had chronic tonsillitis. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside Montgomery, Alabama. There she grew up on a farm with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester, and began her lifelong membership in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She attended rural schools[4] until the age of eleven, then enrolled at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery where she took academic and vocational courses.

  10. Remember • Rosa parks is not a bad woman she was very nice but she helped us a lot and she will be remembered and her legion will go on and on.

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