Black History: Civil Rights Movement Rosa Parks

1. Black History: Civil Rights MovementRosa Parks Sunny Howard 4thgrade

2. Rosa Parks: Introduction I chose Rosa Park for several different reasons. There are three reasons why I chose Rosa Parks. One of those reasons would be, she stood up for African American in many different ways. By doing so, she refused to get out of her seat in the white section of the bus. Lastly, she believed that blacks and whites should be able to sit anywhere they want. As a black person, Rosa Parks struggled. First, Rosa couldn’t go to the same schools as whites because African-Americans were not allowed the education like whites. Black and whites weren’t allowed to use the same restroom or drink from the same water fountain. African-Americans couldn’t eat at an all “whites” restaurant, and they had to ride the bus in different sections. By saying this, the story begans..

3. Background Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was born to James and Leona McCauley. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a carpenter. When Rosa, was two years old, her father moved away and the rest of her family moved in with Rosa’s maternal grandparents. Taught to read by her mother at a young age, Rosa went on to attend a segregated, one-room school in Pine Level, Alabama, that often lacked adequate school supplies such as desks. African-American students were forced to walk to the 1st- through 6th-grade schoolhouse, while the city of Pine Level provided bus transportation as well as a new school building for white students

4. In 1932, at age 19, Rosa met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. With Raymond's support, Rosa earned her high school degree in 1933. She soon became actively involved in civil rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter's youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President E.D. Nixon—a post she held until 1957.

5. The bus ride home One day in December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was tired from a day at work, as a seamstress. She was so tired, that she sat in the first row of the “colored” section of the bus. At the time there was a law in Alabama that required African-Americans to ride in the back of the bus and to give up their seat to a white person if the bus was crowded. As the bus started to fill up with more white people and the bus driver noticed, he pulled the bus over demanded the blacks give up their seats, so white people could sit down. Rosa thought to herself. “Why should she have to sit in the back? Why should she have to give up her seat just because of her skin color?” On this same day as Rosa refuses to give up her seat, the bus driver called the police and she was arrested,

6. Montgomery Bus Boycott Days later after Rosa’s arrest Martin Luther King, Jr. heard that Mrs. Parks had been arrested, he called a meeting at his church. A huge crowd gathered to hear what he had to say. Dr. King believed there was something they could do. They could boycott. They could refuse to ride the buses. Which started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

7. Life after the boycott After 381 days, the boycott comes to an end, the case was taken all the way to Supreme Court of the United States. African-Americans no longer had to give up their seat to white people. African Americans won the battle of segregation on the buses.

8. Life after the boycott cont.. After the boycott, Rosa and her family moved to Detroit, Michigan due to them being harassed and fired because of the boycott. She served as an African-American member on the U.S House of Representatives receptionist for John Conyer. She also, still worked with NAACP and Southern Christian Leadership Conferene.

9. Achievements In 1987, Rosa and Elaine Steele co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. In 1992, Rosa released her first autobiography. She received a lot of honors , most notably the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton in 1996

10. Rosa Parks death (2005) Rosa Parks died at the age of 92 in 2005. She has opened many doors for African –Americans, just by taking a stand and being a leader. She is known as the mother of the civil rights movement!