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Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement 

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Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement 

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-The Boycott continued for months leading to a lawsuit to begin to fight the laws

-The court ruled that the law supporting Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional and could not be enforced.

-Rosa arrest sent out a huge message to many people

-She became a symbol for the Civil Rights Movement.

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Dec. 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks Arrested for Violating Segregation Laws

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Sixty-one years ago today, Rosa Parks' prominent act of civil disobedience on an Alabama bus transformed the fight for civil rights. When asked why she refused to forfeit her seat to a white passenger - an action that led to her arrest - Parks recalled that she "was tired of giving in."

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-She received several awards including: the NAACP Highest award, the Spingarn Medal; the Martin Luther King Jr. award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

-She was also given the highest award given by the U.S. legislative branch, Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.

-Rosa Parks was named the TIME magazine list of “The Top 20 most influential People of the 20th Century”

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- Full Name- Rosa Louise McCauley
-She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 to Leona and James McCauley.
-Her mother was a teacher and her father a carpenter. -She had a younger brother named Sylvester.

-She lived in a home that encouraged freedom without consideration of race.

-She was a grass roots activist in the pursuit of the rights for African Americans.

-She experienced racial prejudice every day as she walked to school because school buses wouldn’t take black Americans.

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- After finishing up elementary school at Pine Level she attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls.
-Then she attended the Alabama State Teacher's College in order to try and get her high school diploma.
-She married Raymond Parks at the age of 19.

-Raymond was a member of the NAACP.

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-Rosa interested in equality allowed her to join the NAACP and work in the Montgomery, Alabama chapter as well as the position of secretary to the chapter’s President.

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-She went on to work as a receptionist and secretary in the congressional office of the U.S. Representative John Conyer

-She was on the Planned Parenthood Federation of America board

-She published her autobiography “Rosa Parks: My Story” in 1992 and her second book of memoirs “Quiet Strength” in 1995.

-Rosa Parks passed away in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 92.

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Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement 

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Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement 

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-Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus like she was suppose to.

-This verified her belief as an activist to demand equality for all people.

-Rosa was arrested for not giving up her seat.

-A boycott was organized by the NAACP to not support public transportation

-The estimated 40,000 Black Americans supported the boycott and buses appeared, almost completely empty.