Rosa Parks
- Rosa Louise Parks was born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama
- Attended Alabama State College
- She was voted the secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP in 1943
- On December 1, 1955, she got on a bus and sat in the white section. She refused to
give her seat to a white passenger, and was arrested. This started the boycott of the bus
system by the blacks
- In a few months, bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional, and buses were
desegregated in December 1956
- She lost her job as a result of the boycott
- She moved to Detroit, Michigan, and worked as a seamstress
- Her husband was a barber
- She was hired by a congressman to manage his office
- She founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, which offered
guidance to young blacks
- She won the NAACP's Springarn Medal in 1980
- She won the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in 1980
- She also recieved an honorary degree from Shaw College
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