Rosa Parks

She was taken to jail for not leaving her seat to a white man. 9 months before, Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the more publicized Rosa Parks and she was among the five women originally included in the federal court case, filed on February 1, 1956 as Browder v. Gayle, and testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case in the United States District Court. She was only 15 years old were Rosa was 42 at the time of her case. The other women were, Aurelia Browder, Mary Louise Smith and Susie McDonald. At the time of the occurrences on the buses, the leader of the movement didn't know that some women were being breaking the segregation laws to make their cases heard. In about 9 months later Martin Luther king jump out in the next case which was the Rosa Park's case. Rosa lived to a very old age. He died on October 24, 2005 at the age of 92. She was 42 at the time she was arrested and she lost her job so she had to move to another place. 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. Although Parks has sometimes been depicted as a woman with no history of civil rights activism at the time of her arrest, she and her husband, Raymond were, in fact, active in the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Parks served as its secretary. Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks and 5 other unknown women at the time who were Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Mary Louise Smith and Susie McDonald, on 1 December 1955, and the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

First, it should be noted that Rosa Parks was not just a brave but random black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white person; she had actually been active in the civil rights movement for a long time. Because she had an impeccable reputation (she was educated, articulate, and hard-working) and she cared deeply about civil rights, she was chosen to be the face of the civil disobedience protest that Martin Luther King and others had planned-- a boycott of the entire Montgomery bus system. This boycott was important because black people were some of the most frequent riders of the buses, even though they were expected to sit in the back and give up their seat whenever a white person wanted to sit down.

When Rosa Parks refused to be a second-class citizen any longer, and when not one black person in the city rode the buses, suddenly Montgomery's (and Alabama's) segregationist policies were in the news. The bus system began to lose money, while national media focused on the quiet, dignified black woman who had been treated so badly and who was even arrested. As people in other parts of the country learned about her situation, Rosa Parks became a symbol of courage for Americans who thought it was time for improvement in how southern black people were being treated. She was also a role model for many other black men and women who were determined to peacefully protest racism, and who hoped their efforts would lead to an end to segregation. To this day, people who learn about her story admire how she was willing to take such a courageous stand.

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, and died on October 24, 2005.

Rosa was home schooled until she was 11. When she turned 11 she was sent to the " Industrial School for Girls" in Montgomery, Alabama. She began laboratory school for her secondary education but was forced to drop out to care for her grandmother, Rose.

She was homeschooled 1919-1924

Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and died in 2005 aged 92.

Raymond Parks Was born in 1914 and died in 2010 aged 96.

So No. Rosa parks was not a widow but Raymond was a widower

No, Rosa Parks never served in the military.

Rosa Parks changed us by to give a seat o a White person....she thought it was unfair to treat the blacks ad whites differently.She made us understand that black people arent trash ,they are people too and they deserve to be treated like it. She was brave enough to stand up for what she believed in while all the others were just playing along.She NEW that needed to end so she stood up for what she believed in and actually won the fight.

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They all used peaceful/passive protest to encourage social and political change. They were assassinated for their beliefs and the way they did things. They used non-violence as a solution to solve problems. The Buddha was not assassinated, most believe that he died of accidental food poisoning.

She obtained her High School diploma in 1933, at that time only 7% of the African Americans were able to do this. That was the end of her formal studies, though she was awarded several dozen honorary degrees from colleges and universities.

the name of Rosa Parks job is called the Montgomery Fair Store

By refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, she inspired the Montgomery bus boycott. Before then, Black passengers were required to board by the back door, and to sit in the back half of the bus, or to give up their seat anytime there were not enough seats in the "White" section. Civil rights activists pointed out that Black passengers were paying the same fare and getting less service, and also pointed out that there were virtually no Black bus drivers. During the Montgomery bus boycott, Black passengers simply stopped taking the bus. This really hurt the city, not only through the loss of income from bus fares, but also because Black customers couldn't get to stores to shop, many businesses suffered because Black employees couldn't get to work, etc. The boycott lasted many months, but eventually the city gave in and Black people were given the same rights on the bus as Whites. By the way, worth noting that Mrs Parks didn't need to give up her seat for the White passenger. She was alone on the 2-seat bench, but the White passenger refused to sit beside her, demanding that he be given the entire seat to himself.

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On 1 December 1955, after her day of work as a seamstress at a local department store, Parks boarded a city bus. When she refused to give up her seat to a white man, the bus driver called police, and Parks was arrested and fined.

No she fought for more rights and the rule of unfair segregation to be banished and be placed with fair integration between the races.

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She was sentenced in jail for one day but was fined $14.00

She helped give people freedom like Martin Luther King J.R did.She did not give up her seat because she was to tired and she was tired of sitting in the back if it wasn't for Rosa Parks black people would still be sitting in the back of the bus.

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SHE lived with her husband in Alabama the they moved to Detroit,Michigan. Megan d

Let me guess. I say if he was still alive he would be 93 years old. He was only 62 when died of cancer.

After Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus and she wouldn't give up her seat to a "white person", she was arrested. This brought upon the movement to change equal rights for the African Americans. She was one of the first to stand up for herself during the 1950s, after she decided not to move from her seat. She became a symbol of the modern civil rights movement.

she changed the way people felt about her

she changed the way people felt about her

Rosa Parks, on her way home from work was tired and refused to give up her seat for a white man. It sparked a series of boycotts and peaceful demonstrations that became the Civil Rights Movement.

well she was a black woman, so not having many rights is one. She also went to jail multiple times.