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Rosa Parks: My Story

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended the Montgomery Industrial School, which emphasized domestic sciences such as cooking, sewing, and caring for the sick. She married Raymond Parks in 1932 and was one of the first women to join the Montgomery branch of the NAACP in 1943. On December 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man and was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance. Her actions inspired 50,000 blacks in Montgomery to boycott the city buses for a year until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the segregated busing policy was unconstitutional. She moved to Detroit, Michigan with her husband in 1957 and served as a secretary/ receptionist for U.S. Representative John Conyers from 1965 to 1988. She founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, which sponsors an annual summer bus trip around the country for teenagers to learn the history of their country and the civil rights movement. She received numerous awards during her lifetime incl

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On December 1,1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused. Her resistance set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a child, she went to an industrial school for girls and later enrolled at Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes (present-day Alabama State University). Unfortunately, Parks was forced to withdraw after her grandmother became ill. Growing up in the segregated South, Parks was frequently confronted with racial discrimination and violence. She became active in the Civil Rights Movement at a young age.

Parks married a local barber by the name of Raymond Parks when she was 19. He was actively fighting to end racial injustice. Together the couple worked with many social justice organizations. Eventually, Rosa was elected secre

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks: My Story is the 1992 autobiography of Rosa McCauley Parks, one of the most prominent activists of the Civil Rights Era that began in the mid-twentieth century. A black American who endured the country’s segregation laws and intense racist sentiment until she realized an imperative not to be complacent, Parks describes her life, from her early childhood in Montgomery, Alabama through her peaceful protests and long-term involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She vividly recalls the years of the country’s segregation laws, which explicitly prohibited African American people from choosing where to live, obtaining certain jobs, and attending educational institutions. Parks’s life was very difficult, but not unlike those of countless other African Americans. She eventually teamed up with her husband and the NAACP. From there, she helped make many landmark victories that improved the rights and liberties of black people.

Parks begins her autobiography with a look back at her formative years in Montgomery. She ret

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