Black history month rosa parks biography wikipedia
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Black history month rosa parks biography wikipedia for kids
Name: Rosa Parks (nee Rosa Louise McCauley)
Born: 4 February 1913
Passed: 24 October 2005
Place of birth: Tuskegee, Alabama, USA
Residencies: Tuskegee, Detroit
Known for: Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat ….
Awards: Springarn Medal (1979); Golden Plate Award (1995); Presidential Medal of Freedom (1996); the Congressional Gold Medal (1999) and NAACP Image Award for outstanding supporting actress in dram series (2000).
Rosa Parks was one of the reasons why the bus service in Montgomery was boycotted.
Rosa Parks is considered to be the ‘first lady of civil rights’. Why is that? It’s said that Rosa was arrested on 1 December 1955 for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man.
Black history month rosa parks biography wikipedia
This was against the city’s racial segregation rules. Equal rights did not exist back then.
The black community reacted to this and under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr, the Montgomery Improvement Association decided to boycott the bus company.
It is said that African-