- Rosa Parks holds a iconic status in the civil rights movement after she refused to vacate a seat for a white passenger on the montgomery bus in Alabama.
-Rosa Parks was 41 at the time of her arrest which was on december 1st 1955, Rosa parks was arrested and Fingerprinted by the police.
-Rosa parks gained the name “The mother of the freedom movement”.
-Rosa Parks was born on february 4th 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama and on october 24th 2005 she died at the age of 92 due to natural causes.
-Rosa parks famous sayings where “You should never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” and “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would also be free.”
-For lots of Rosa parks early life and childhood she was educated by her mother at home until the age of 11, Rosa also helped with chores on the farm and learned to cook and sew. Farm life, though, was less entertaining for Rosa.
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-Rosa parks Mother’s name was Leona she was a school teacher at Miss White’s School, Leona’s salary was the only income that the family had for the household.
-Leona instilled in rosa’s importance of faith, self-respect and education values reinforced by her grandparents and teachers at Miss White’s School, a School Rosa Parks would attend at the age of 11.
-James McCauley was Rosa Park’s Father, he was born in Abbeville, Alabama, He was the eldest son of Anderson McCauley and Louise McCauley.
-He Became a Skilled carpenter and stonesman like his father.
-James McCauley separated from Leona (Rosa’s Mother) When Rosa parks was two years