Rosa Parks Collection Items Housed in the Prints and Photographs Division The Library of Congress does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not license or charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. Although Rosa and her husband Raymond Parks had no children of their own, children were a significant part of Rosa Parks’s life. She was a beloved aunt to her brother Sylvester’s thirteen children, and in 1987 Rosa Parks and her longtime friend Elaine Steele co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. The goal of Booking photo of American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott was Civil rights leader Rosa Parks waits to receive the Congressional Gold Medal in Statuary Hall in the Capitol Building, Washington, DC, June 14, 1999. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913. On December 1, 1955, she boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama and sat in the middle, where Black passengers in that city were allowed to sit unless a white person wanted the seat. As the bus filled with new riders, the driver told Parks to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused. Who was Rosa Parks? Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. She grew up in a world that constantly reminded her she was considered “less than” because of the color of her skin. Schools, water fountains, restaurants, and even sidewalks were divided by strict segregation laws known as “Jim Crow” laws. With niece, Susan McCauley, and baby, 1970s. (Rosa Parks Papers/Library of Congress) Rosa Parks cooking at a McDonald’s restaurant grill. 1980s. Former Timeline picture editor. Follow. Rosa Parks became one of the major symbols of the civil rights movement when she refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. View photos of life and legacy. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. When she was a child she was often sick and sadly had to spend a lot of time in bed. Then when she was two their family moved to live with their grandparents on a farm in a town called Pine Level. Rosa loved being on the farm with her family. Rosa Parks' Montgomery, Ala. Sheriff's Department booking photo taken on Feb. 22, 1956. Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 in Parks wrote of her experiences. She published an autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story, in 1992 and a book, Quiet Strength, in 1994. In 2002, the CBS television network released a movie made for television that directly involved Parks in its production titled The Rosa Parks Story starring actress Angela Bassett. Title: Seating arrangements Mrs. Rosa Parks, 43, woman whose arrest on December 1st, 1955, touched off a year-long bus boycott by the Negro community here, gazes out of the window from a seat far forward in the bus she boarded here December 21st, as the boycott came to an end. Mrs. Parks was arrested originally when she sat in bus forward of white passengers. The opening description from this exhibit provides a great summary of who Rosa Parks was and the impact she had: Rosa Parks (1913–2005) is best known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. One Twitter user shared a baby picture of himself, along with what appears to be Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks, and now Twitter is going wild. She told me she wasn't scared, though. She just wanted to make sure she had the energy to keep educating young people. The news of her sudden passing in July 2018 at age 42 was a gut punch. We are honored to share Urana's words with you again this year in the hopes that we can help continue her mission: to tell the true story of her aunt, Rosa A Montgomery Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, after she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat two months earlier. Rosa Parks is finger-printed by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, Feb. 22, 1956. She had been arrested with other African Americans, as part of the city's harassment of the bus boycott protesters. Rosa Parks real name: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks Height: 5'3''(in feet & inches) 1.6002(m) 160.02(cm) , Birthdate(Birthday): February 4, 1913 , Age on October 24, 2005 (Death date): 92 Years 8 Months 20 Days Profession: Social Worker (Activist), Also working as: Civil rights activist, Features: Dark brown eye and grey hair., Address: Detroit Up from Pine Level Nobody knows exactly where in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913. The town newspaper reported that the skies were clear and it was unseasonably warm that day, but beyond that, and the fact that she was named after her maternal grandmother, Rose, virtually no reliable documentation exists on the early years of Rosa Louise Parks. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee to Leona, a school teacher, and James McCauley, a skilled carpenter and stonemason. Shortly after her birth, her family moved into this house in Abbeville situated on a 260-acre farm owned by her grandparents, Anderson and Louisa McCauley.
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