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Rosa Parks occupies an iconic status in the civil rights movement after she refused to vacate a seat on a bus in favor of a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1955, Parks rejected a bus driver's order to leave a row of four seats in the "colored" section once the white section had filled up and move to the back of the bus. Rosa's Activism Begins with the NAACP. Rosa Parks' involvement in civil rights activism began to take shape when she joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1943. As part of the Montgomery chapter, Parks served as both the youth leader and secretary to E.D. Nixon, the president of the chapter. The family moved to Montgomery; Rosa went to school and became a seamstress. She married barber Raymond Parks in 1932, and the couple joined the Montgomery National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). When she inspired the bus boycott, Parks had been the secretary of the local NAACP for twelve years (1943-1956). In 1943 Rosa Parks joined the local chapter of the NAACP and was elected secretary. Two years later, she registered to vote, after twice being denied. By 1949 Parks was advisor to the local NAACP Youth Council. Under her guidance, youth members challenged the Jim Crow system by checking books out of whites-only libraries. In 1946 the Montgomery NAACP defended the paroled Scottsboro Boy Andy Wright and found him employment. That same year, Parks attended a leadership training program run by Ella Baker. In 1947 E. D. Nixon was elected Alabama state president of the NAACP, and Parks became the first state secretary in 1948. Parks restarted the NAACP youth branch and put her hopes in the spirit and militancy of young people. Most black Montgomerians didn’t want their kids affiliated with the youth branch for fear of trouble, but she encouraged her small group of teenagers to pursue greater stands against segregation, including a read-in at the downtown library The family moved to Montgomery; Rosa went to school and became a seamstress. She married barber Raymond Parks in 1932, and the couple joined the Montgomery National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). When she inspired the bus boycott, Parks had been the secretary of the local NAACP for twelve years (1943-1956). In the 1940s, Rosa became active in the NAACP too, leading the youth division of the Montgomery branch and serving as secretary. In September 1944, the rape case of Recy Taylor galvanized Alabama Both Parks and her husband were active members of the Montgomery Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . In 1943, Parks was appointed secretary of the Montgomery NAACP and also served as its youth leader. On December 1, 1955, Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus. In 1932, at age 19, Parks met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of the NAACP. After graduating high school with Raymond’s support, Parks became actively involved in civil rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter’s youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President Rosa Louis McCauley was born in 1913 in Alabama. In her youth, the law in Alabama segregated people of color in all public shared spaces and prevented them their voting rights. In 1943 Parks joined the Civil Rights movement, elected to serve as a secretary in the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Mrs. Parks has written four books, Rosa Parks: My Story: by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins, Quiet Strength by Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today’s Youth by Rosa Parks with Gregory J, Reed, this book received the NAACP’s Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, (Children’s) in 1996 and her latest book, I Raymond Parks was a member of the NAACP and Parks joined in 1943. She was a the Montgomery chapter’s youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President E.D. Nixon. On December 1, 1955 Parks was riding the segregated buses when she was asked to move so that a white passenger could take her seat. others of his own group.” —Rosa Parks Raymond became a member of the Montgomery NAACP in 1934, though in time he would grow disillusioned with the organization’s cautiousness and elitism. Raymond attended NAACP meetings and Rosa wanted to accompany him “but he’d always say it was too dangerous. I didn’t 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. Mrs. Parks's work for racial justice long preceded this courageous act. She was very active in the local chapter of the NAACP ever since joining as the chapter’s only woman member in 1943, and had served as both the youth leader and secretary. Mrs. Parks frequently traveled throughout Alabama to interview black people A decade later Parks joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and later became secretary for its Montgomery chapter. On December 1, 1955, returning home from work on a city bus, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, as required by law. Good evening, distinguished guests. Rosa Parks’s name echoes through history as a symbol of courage and determination. Yet her contribution to civil rights and social justice extends far beyond that famous December day in Montgomery. Before her arrest, Mrs. Parks worked as secretary of the local NAACP chapter. She married barber Raymond Parks in 1932, and the couple joined the Montgomery National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). When she inspired the bus boycott, Parks had been the secretary of the local NAACP for twelve years (1943-1956). Parks founded the Montgomery NAACP Youth Council in the early 1940s. Parks joined the Montgomery NAACP chapter in 1943, where she became an active member, working as a secretary and advocating for victims of racial injustice. Getty Images 5 / 30 Fotos

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