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bus incident
Fist- born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, died October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan.
Rosa's mother wanted her to get a high school education, but this wasn't easy for an African-American girl living in Alabama in the 1920s.When Rosa would ride the bus to work, she would have to sit in the back in the seats marked "for colored".Growing up Rosa had lived with racism in the south. -
Fighting for Equal Rights
Growing up Rosa had lived with racism in the south. She was scared of the members of the KKK who had burned down black school houses and churches. She also saw a black man get beaten by a white bus driver for getting in his way. The bus driver only had to pay a $24 fine. Rosa and her husband Raymond wanted to do something about it. They joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.y. The train was supposed to not be segregated according to the Supreme Court. -
employment discrimination and education.
there she found that the treatment of the African-American community was not much better,and that there was also segregation in schools and housing, a situation that prompted her to join the movement for fair housing.Politically, she supported the congressional candidacy of Democrat John Conyers,who was elected in 1965 and hired her as a secretary in his office-she was until her retirement in1988-where she worked in the areas of affordable housing,employment discrimination and education. -
Recognitions and honors for Rosa Parks
His civil rights activism did not stop there.She also served on the board of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and,with her husband deceased,founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Personal Development in1987,whose annual 'Roads to Freedom´program organizes bus tours for teenagers to Learn about the recent history of the fight for civil rights in the United States.He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in1996.She was the first woman and the second African-American -
Tired of giving in
That activism for the right to vote, which for a long time did not even allow her to see the light at the end of the tunnel, confirmed the courage and resistance that Rosa Parks displayed when 66 years ago she refused to leave her seat on the 2857 bus. Montgomery. As she herself explained in her autobiography “My Story”“I was not physically tired, nor more tired than I usually was at the end of a work day. He was not old, he was 42 years old. -
The great African American protest
The trial was held four days ago,the African-American protest was already underway, and Parks was received by a crowd in solidarity with her cause. After half an hour of hearing,they found her guilty of violating a local ordinance and sentenced her to a fine of 10 dollars,plus 4 in court fees, which she refused to pay because she considered that rule illegal.On December 5,the Association was created to the Montgomery Improvement with the goal of defending the civil rights of the black community.