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BIRTH
Rosa Parks, registered at birth under the name Rosa Louise McCauley1 (Tuskegee, Alabama, February 4, 1913-Detroit -
STUDY AND MARRIAGE
He studied at Montgomery Industrial School for Girls and at Alabama State Teachers College. When he finished his studies, he married Raymond Parks. Marriage lived at a time when the division, that is, the segregation of people by race, especially blacks, was of great importance in most of the southern states of the United States. -
JOB
In 1950, Rosa joined the civil rights movement and was employed as secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Montgomery. -
BUS INCIDENT
In response to Rosa's imprisonment, Martin Luther King, a relatively unknown Baptist pastor at that time, led the protest to Montgomery's public buses, in which Rosa Parks' childhood activist and friend, Johnnie Carr, and which simply summoned the African-American population to organize to transport themselves by their own means and not take the buses. -
BUS INCIDENT
Rosa was 42 years old when on December 1, 1955, she took a public transport to return home, specifically a bus.
Parks settled into the middle seats, which blacks could use if no white required it. When that part was filled, the driver ordered him, along with three other blacks, to give up their places to a young white man who had just climbed. -
JUDICIAL FIGHT
In 1956, the judicial fight against the segregationist law of Montgomery and Alabama finally reached the Supreme Court of the United States, which declared transportation segregation unconstitutional. -
ICON
Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement. He moved to Detroit (Michigan) in the early 1960s where he got a job with African-American representative John Conyers of the Democratic Party from 1965 to 1988 -
AWARDS AND HONORS
In 1979, the NAACP granted Parks its highest recognition, the Spingarn medal and the following year he received the Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks was included in the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in 1983 for her achievements in the progress of civil rights. After a lifetime of battling racism, Parks received the Gold Medal of the United States Congress in 1999 -
QUASA AND DATE OF DEATH
Cause of death: natural causes
Date of death: October 24, 2005