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Newspaper report of Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott Fri, Dec 2, 1955 – 9 · The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama) The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a 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. The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. Early Childhood Incidents and Experiences, ca. 1955-1958. Autograph manuscript. Rosa Parks Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. (Rosa Parks recounts the desertion of her father, James McCauley, and growing up in rural Pine Level, Alabama on the farm of maternal grandparents, Sylvester and Rosa Edwards, with her mother and brother, Leona and Sylvester McCauley.) Biographer Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, describes in this article written for the Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 4 no. 2 (March-April 2015):16-18, the recently acquired Rosa Parks Papers and how they shed new light on Parks and her activism. Rosa Parks’ Papers Are Now Online. Read about everything from her meditations on the Civil Rights Movement to her recipe for “featherlite” peanut butter pancakes. Erin Blakemore. On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement. Black toddler ‘arrested’ in Rosa Parks role-play at preschool News Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice News about Rosa Parks. Commentary and archival information about Rosa Parks from The New York Times. 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. Bus in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, currently in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. / THF134576 Accompanying The Henry Ford’s acquisition of the Rosa Parks bus in 2001 was a binder of newspaper clippings recounting the events of Rosa Parks’s arrest and the ensuing bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Clipping found in The Montgomery Advertiser published in Montgomery, Alabama on 12/6/1955. Article about the first day of the bus boycott; mentions Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King César Chavez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was a Mexican-American union leader, labor organizer, and civil rights activist who is best known for his efforts to improve working conditions Clipping found in The Montgomery Advertiser published in Montgomery, Alabama on 12/2/1955. Rosa parks noticia reciente Clipping found in The Morning Call published in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 12/6/1955. After the arrest of Rosa Parks, thousands boycott Montgomery city lines in protest Clipping found in Detroit Free Press published in Detroit, Michigan on 8/31/1994. Newspaper headlines of Rosa Parks being attacked in her home in 1994 EDITOR'S NOTE: Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955 -- the start of the Montgomery bus boycott -- got relatively little attention, initially. Clipping found in The Courier-Journal published in Louisville, Kentucky on 7/4/1992. Book review of Rosa Parks' 1992 autobiography, "My Story" Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was a black woman, who played an important part in the American Civil Rights movement. She made changes to try to make life fair for black and white people in America. Early Life Rosa Parks was born on 4th February, 1913 and grew up on a farm with her mother, brother and grandparents in a place called Montgomery in the USA.
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