Rosa Parks

The summer before she gave up her bus seat to a white man

Rosa Parks was a maid that was on her way home. She rode the bus. At the time that she commuted to and from work it was law that the bus company and driver could require people to sit in certain parts of the bus. African Americans were required to sit in the back of the bus. This part of the bus had less ventilation and the seats were not maintained.

Rosa Parks was so tired that she took the first seat available in the front of the bus and refused to move when asked. Because she did this it started a boycott of the bus system and a turn around for laws that discriminated against a person because of ethnicity.

Surprisingly, there were laws still on the books that discriminated because of race in the 1990's.

First of all let's clarify a few misconceptions about Madame Walker.

Madame C.J. Walker did not invent the pressing comb nor did she sell or invent chemical straighteners. In fact, Madame Walker resented being called a hair straightener. Per her own words, she started the "Hair Growing Business" founded upon a very simple theory of scalp maintenance. In an interview given to the Indianapolis Recorder, Madame Walker was quoted as saying the following:

"Right here let me correct the erroneous impression that I claim to straighten hair. I deplore such impression because I have always held myself out as a hair culturist. I grow hair...I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention."

As can be readily observed, Madame Walker was not focused with making hair straight; she was focused on making hair grow! The false rumor that Madame Walker invented the pressing comb has been disseminated throughout the year so much so until it have become her signature accomplishment when if fact it is a false rumor -probably initially spread by her competitors in a feeble attempt to distort her products' original purpose. Unfortunately as we all know, when a lie is repeated over and over it is eventually mistaken as the truth.

Now as for her "hair growing system", the historical documents of the manufacturing company she founded indicated that she began sell her hair products door to door in 1900. She officially incorporated her business in 1911 in Indianapolis, In. The Original Madame C.J. Walker Hair Care products are still being manufactured and sold today.

His name was James F. Blake. He was born in 1912 and died in 2002.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

The slave trade has not been abolished, it is still happening today.

Her Favorite Food was Fried Ham with creamed peas and for desert sweet potato pie:)

Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama! A few years after her parents' divorce, her mom took her and her baby brother to live with her in Pine Level, Alabama on her grandmothers farm

She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and was jailed. There was a boycott of the bus systems causing a racial riot that started the racial revolution.

At the time of the Montgomery Bus boycott, Rosa Parks worked in a department store doing alterations. She was a seamstress.

you may be right but i thought she was a slave i think im right...:)

Rosa parks parents are Leona and James mccauley she was aressted for breaking the Jim crow laws she was a brave black woman.she also help martin Luther king jr. with bringing whites with blackes

Rosa Parks stood for integrity and dignity

Rosa enjoyed skating with nephew Michael.

Also she enjoyed tobogganing with her nieces Farrah, Miley and Demi.

Plus she liked watching Superman and Ironman with nephews.

Plus she kinda likes to knit....well....... Not really. :)

Rosa Parks face a death of emmet till when she was only 14 years old and that stayed in her head for years a years. Then was arrsted by the police. She had to go to jail and court for not moving her seat on the bus like she was told to.

Rosa Parks wasn't the most intelligent person and collected squirrels for a living

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama,and died on October 24, 2005 (aged 92) Detroit, Michigan. She lived in Montgomery, Alabama, where she became famous because of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa Parks' grandmother and father, Rosa and Sylvester Edwards, were farmers in Alabama and ex slaves.

The police did not fine her, the Montgomery City court fined her $10 plus court costs of $4 for a total assessed of $14.

well Rosa was throne of the bus and was token to cort where she stood up and gave a big hug to the judge and wispered osmething that noone knows.

An Anglo family, I believe she worked for them, sponsored her to go to a gospel camp where Anglos and African Americans sang and socialized together. That is where she saw Anglos and African Americans being treated the same. When she returned to a segregated Montgomery, she knew that it was not right to be separated because of skin color.

E. D. Nixon got Rosa Parks more involved in the civil rights battle when he wanted to use her case to test the constitutionality of segregation. After Martin Luther King, Jr. was chosen to be the leader of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Rosa Parks got heavily involved with civil rights.

Three important people come to mind as important people in the US civil rights movement. Sadly both of them were assassinated. The men were Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers. Also, Rosa Parks also was an important figure.

Because her and Raymond were infertile. They were hoping, but didn't. And they were too poor to adopt. But they treated Elaine Steele like the daughter they never had.

Because she wouldn't give up her seat for a white person.

1. When the Ku Klux Klan marched down the street in front of her house, Parks recalls her grandfather guarding the front door with a shotgun.

2. Parks went to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Black People for secondary education but was forced to drop out to care for her grandmother, and later for her mother, after they became ill.

3. In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery, at her mother's house.