Rosa Parks Research Paper

Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama and died on October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. Her parents were Leona McCauley and James McCauley. At age 20, she married her spouse Raymond Parks. Her husband and herself were part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). When she was 42 years old she was considered one of the First African American women to make a change in history. After what she stood up for, she is now known for “the mother of the freedom movement”. In the end she became a big success and was honored throughout the nation for what she did. On December 1, 1955, Parks was tired from work and wanted to take the bus home. As she went and took her seat in the back where it was

From her arrest, Mr. E.D. Nixon had gotten her out of jail and believed that the African American community must respond. He called a meeting with other black leaders to talk about going against bus segregation. They agreed to call a boycott of all city busses in Montgomery Alabama on Monday, December 5. Martin Luther King Jr. was the one who was chosen to lead it. That day, some of the Leaders and citizens that are African American wait at a bus stop to see whether their plan will work or not. They were protesting and didn’t ride the bus but either walked, road bikes, and take carpools. The white people started to notice no African Americans would aboard the bus. That same day Rosa Parks had court and was found guilty for breaking a city segregation law and fines her 14 dollars while her lawyer said he would appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. As King was still trying to change the laws about segregation and kept the boycott going still, the bus company started to lose money and the white citizens were getting

I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Parks lost her job and was still facing harassment and threats, so her husband, mother and herself moved to Detroit. Rosa Parks became an administrative aid in the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers Jr. in 1965. She was there until retirement in 1988. After she retired she went to give her support to civil-rights events and causes and wrote an autobiography. She also was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor the United States bestows on a civilian. She was also co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self- Development, to serve Detroit’s