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. Activist Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott that partially ended racial segregation. Rosa attended segregated schools throughout her education. The one-room school in Pine Level To help Detroit's youth, she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development in 1987. She went to support civil-rights events and organisations in the years after her retirement and wrote an autobiography, "Rosa Parks: My Story." Autobiography of Rosa Parks was written by Jim Haskins. Who was Rosa Parks and what did she do? Rosa Parks was born Rosa McCauley on February 4, 1913. She received her early education at a private school, but while caring for both her grandmother and mother, Rosa had to delay completing her high school credits. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks and then received her high school diploma in 1934. Unfortunately, Rosa's education was cut short when her mother became very ill. Rosa left school to care for her mother. A few years later Rosa met Raymond Parks. Raymond was a successful barber who worked in Montgomery. They married a year later in 1932. Rosa worked part time jobs and went back to school, finally earning her high school diploma. Unfortunately, Parks was forced to withdraw after her grandmother became ill. Growing up in the segregated South, Parks was frequently confronted with racial discrimination and violence. She became active in the Civil Rights Movement at a young age. Parks married a local barber by the name of Raymond Parks when she was 19. Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley, a carpenter and stonemason, and Leona Edwards, a teacher. She spent much of her childhood living with her maternal grandparents in Pine Level, a small town in southeast Montgomery County. There, she began her education in an all-black school with a In 1919, she attended the Pine Level segregated school. Then, in 1924 she interrupted her schooling to be the primary caretaker for her ailing grandmother and mother. In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks. She went on to attend Montgomery Industrial School and Alabama State Teachers College to complete her high school education by 1934. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913.She moved with her parents, James and Leona McCauley, to Pine Level, Alabama, at age 2 to reside with Leona’s parents. Parks’s own schooling illustrates just how unequal things were. She attended a wooden, one-room schoolhouse in Pine Level, Alabama, which the community had to build themselves. Students had to cut and haul wood to heat their classrooms, and a single teacher, Rosa’s mother, taught all 60 K–6 students simultaneously. Rosa Parks’ Early Education. Born on February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks grew up in a segregated America. Initially, Rosa attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, which was a school specifically for Black students and covered 9th grade. ROSA LOUISE PARKS BIOGRAPHY. Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. In 2000, Troy University created the Rosa Parks Museum, located at the site of her arrest in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. In 2001, the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, consecrated Rosa Parks Circle, a 3.5-acre park designed by Maya Lin, an artist and architect best known for designing the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 1980, following the deaths of her husband (1977), brother (1977) and mother (1979), Parks, along with The Detroit News, and the Detroit Public school system, founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation. Parks also co-founded, with Elaine Steele, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in 1987. Rosa Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given to a civilian, and in 1999 the United States Congress honored Rosa Parks with the Congressional Gold Medal. Rosa Parks resided in Detroit until her passing at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005. On October 27, the United States Senate passed a resolution to honor Rosa Parks by She Would Not Be Moved: how we tell the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott. New York: The New Press, 2005. ISBN 1595580204; Parks, Rosa, with James Haskins. Rosa Parks, My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992. ISBN 0803706731; Parks, Rosa, with Gregory J. Reed. Quiet Strength. Zondervan, 1994. ISBN 978-0310501503 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. A Rosa Parks moment? School choice and the marketization of civil rights Janelle T. Scott a a Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Version of record first published: 22 Nov 2012. To cite this article: Janelle T. Scott (2013): A Rosa Parks moment? School choice and the Early Life and Education of Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley, who would become widely known as Rosa Parks, was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, amidst the era of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation. She was the daughter of James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona Edwards, a teacher. Year Published 2017. Word Count 723. Text Complexity; Lexile Level: 470L; ATOS Reading Level: 4.6; AR Quiz Numbers; Quiz 503266, 0.5 AR Points; OverDrive Digital Book Details
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