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April 14, 2005: Parks and the hip-hop group Outkast reach an out-of-court settlement regarding their 1998 song "Rosa Parks." October 24, 2005: Parks dies at the age of 92 Also Read: Accomplishments of Rosa Parks. During this period, Rosa Parks also attended the Highlander Folk School, an educational center in Tennessee that focused on civil rights and social justice issues. The school played a significant role in providing training and inspiration for activists during the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks Act, 2006 Act approved in the Legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama to allow those considered law-breakers at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott to clear their arrest records of the charge of civil disobedience, including Rosa Parks posthumously. A timeline covering the life of Rosa Parks, 1913-2005. 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. Together, they worked tirelessly to support civil rights causes and challenge the pervasive injustices of their time. It was during this period that Rosa Parks became increasingly involved with the NAACP, serving as the secretary for the Montgomery chapter. In 1932 she married Raymond Parks, a barber and member of the NAACP. At that time, Raymond Parks was active in the Scottsboro case. 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. Rosa Parks boarded a bus and sat in the first row of the ‘blacks’ section of the bus. She had not noticed that the bus driver was James Blake, the driver that had driven off without her in 1943. After a number of white people got on the bus the bus driver insisted that four black passengers including Parks should stand so that white Rosa Parks meets with the Pope in St. Louis and reads a statement to the Pope asking for racial healing. 2005: Rosa Parks dies Rosa Parks dies in her Detroit home on October 24th. Rosa Parks' funeral service, seven hours long, was held at the Greater Grace Temple Church on November 2nd. She died of progressive dementia. 2006: statue View the timeline in table format Guiding Question: How can activists and activism evolve over time? Big Idea: Lifelong Activism Students will analyze Rosa Parks' evolving activism during the Black Freedom Movement using primary source sets created from the Library of Congress exhibit "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words.” Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions THEOHARIS There are a couple of reasons, right? I think it's first a reminder -- for black women of Rosa Parks' generation were routinely denied that honorific. So part of it is to put her in that historical context, and to remind people that the people who respected Rosa Parks of her time always used that honorific, that Mrs. Parks. Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the Rosa Parks receives NAACP’s Spingarn Medal: 1979 Rosa Parks mother, Leona Macauley dies: 1987 Rosa Parks co-founds the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development with long time friend Elaine Eason Steele: 1988 Retires from Congressman Conyers Detroit office: 1989 First Pathways to Freedom ride: 1989 Bust of Rosa Parks unveiled at Parks, who died in 2005 and whose birthday is Feb. 4, is usually talked about—especially during Black History Month—as “a tired seamstress” who was arrested for refusing to give up her Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 26, 1956. Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images. Most of us know Rosa Parks as the African American woman who quietly, but firmly, refused to give up her bus seat to a white person Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. That small act of _____1. Rosa Parks was a single mother who worked as a seamstress. _____2. Rosa Parks was well known in Montgomery, Alabama before December 1, 1955, the day when she decided not to give up her seat on a public bus. _____3. Rosa Parks defied the segregation laws when she sat in the section of a public bus reserved for white riders. Rosa Parks was in jail for roughly a day. The president of the NAACP Edgar Nixon bailed Rosa Parks out of jail one day after her arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955. The courts convicted her of disorderly conduct four days after her arrest. By the time Parks’ Dec. 5 trial rolled around, Montgomery’s black community was ready to mobilize. City buses rolled through the town mostly empty, a sight that emboldened the protesters. Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News. Smith sits “on the bus Victory ride” in a display with replicas of passengers at the Rosa Parks Museum.
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