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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. Browse 70 rosa parks dies at photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. The body of Rosa Parks lie in state at the Capitol's rotunda while the public pay their last respect. Civil Rights Pioneer and Social Activist. An African-American working woman, she became most famous for her refusal in 1955 to give up a bus seat to a white man who was getting on the bus, an incident that led to her arrest and inspired Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, one of Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave. And still the journey—like the movement itself—carried onward, making its way back to Detroit, where the body of Rosa Parks was eventually delivered to the Greater Grace Temple Church for her final funeral service on November 2, 2005. A line of mourners hoping to claim one of the 2,000 available seats stretched for blocks. Browse 198 rosa parks funeral photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. An mourner holds a memorial card of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks after paying her respects at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American Browse 44 civil rights pioneer rosa parks remembered photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Books about civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks sit on display October 25, 2005 at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the Congress of the United States dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day American Civil Rights Movement". Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey a bus driver's demand that she give up her seat to a white Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Deputy Sherriff Lackey in Montgomery on February 22 in 1956 two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. July 15, 1995: Rosa Parks visits an exhibit illustrating her bus ride of December 1955 at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. Parks visited around the city to inaugurate her three The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division, as well as 2,500 photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division, documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans. This is one of those things that gets mixed up a bit. Rosa Parks didn’t set out that day to protest the segregated bussing. She was an activist, and she was also selected as the poster child for that particular cause over other possible candidates because civil rights activists believed she presented a better picture to the public than, for example, a young unwed pregnant woman in a similar Rosa and Parks lost their jobs as well though they were not fired; Parks resigned when his bosses banned any speak of Rosa on the premises, and Rosa was let go when her shop was forced to shut down. Rosa was then able to put her efforts into helping the MIA to arrange a sophisticated transportation system for the black citizens, made up of cars At the front of a bus, previously reserved for white riders, is Rosa Parks, face turned to the window to her left, seemingly lost in thought as she rides through Montgomery, Ala. In the seat behind her is a young white man looking to his right, his face hard, almost expressionless. Rosa Louise Parks (n. 4 februarie 1913 , Tuskegee ( d ) , Alabama , SUA – d. 24 octombrie 2005 , Detroit , Michigan , SUA ) a fost o afroamericană militantă pentru drepturile omului. In a photo taken during Parks’ final years, Sheila McCauley Keys’ sister Rhea McCauley, “Auntie” Rosa Parks and Rhea’s daughter, Renee Fussello 11-28-99, Detroit, (Rosa Parks Tribute Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 Alabama, violating segregation laws. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 13-month non-violent protest of the city bus system led by Martin Luther King Jr. that ultimately resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. A collection of the top 26 Rosa Parks wallpapers and backgrounds available for download for free. We hope you enjoy our growing collection of HD images to use as a background or home screen for your smartphone or computer. In 2004, Rosa was diagnosed with progressive dementia and died the following year on October 24, 2005. Three days after Rosa’s death, all of the city buses in Montgomery and Detroit reserved their front seats with black ribbons in her honor, and remained this way until Rosa was put into her final resting place. The journey to the cemetery was Browse 2,715 images of rosa parks photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. American civil rights activist Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the
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