https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70 American civil rights movementand activist en-us 2022-05-23 19:30:44 UTC 2022-05-27 04:45:43 UTC hello@padlet.com 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2198196704 I was born February 4, 1913]]> 2022-05-24 19:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2198196704 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2199816487 I was born in Tuskegee Alabama!]]> 2022-05-25 18:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2199816487 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201226684 I have 1 brother and his name is Sylvester. I have both of my parents and their names are James and Leona (Edwards) McCauley.]]> 2022-05-26 18:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201226684 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201231524 In 1932, at 19, I married Raymond Parks, a self-educated man 10 years her senior who worked as a barber. He was was a long-time member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).]]> 2022-05-26 18:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201231524 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201237782 I was called "the mother of the civil rights movement," I invigorated the struggle for racial equality when I refused to give up my bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. I was arrest that day on December 1, 1955. I launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens. A Supreme Court ruling and declining revenues forced the city to desegregate its buses thirteen months later. I became an instant icon, but my resistance was a natural extension of a lifelong commitment to activism. Over the years, I had repeatedly disobeyed bus segregation regulations. Once, I even had been put off a bus for my defiance!!]]> 2022-05-26 18:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201237782 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201247941 There is a film about me!!! Called ''The Story Of Rosa Parks''. I got to be in this movie !! I was excited and proud of myself and the actor who played me was Angela Bassett. She did amazing!!]]> 2022-05-26 18:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201247941 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201271170 In the wake of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, I lost my tailoring job and received death threats. I and my family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1957. ]]> 2022-05-26 19:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201271170 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201274115 when I married barber Raymond Parks in 1932, and the couple joined the Montgomery National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). I was inspired by the bus boycott, I had been the secretary of the local NAACP for twelve years (1943-1956). I founded the Montgomery NAACP Youth Council in the early 1940s. Later, as secretary of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, I traveled throughout the state interviewing victims of discrimination and witnesses to lynchings.]]> 2022-05-26 19:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201274115 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201281010 My childhood brought me early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. In one experience, my grandfather stood in front of their house with a shotgun while Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street.]]> 2022-05-26 19:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201281010 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201283723 By the mid-1950s, I was working as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store and as a housekeeper for a white couple, Clifford and Virginia Durr.


]]> 2022-05-26 19:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201283723 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201286784 My parents were farmers who held other jobs as well. My father worked as a carpenter while my mother was also a teacher.


]]> 2022-05-26 19:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201286784 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201289063 Along with Martin Luther King, Jr. and other prolific Black leaders, I took part in the March on Washington in August of 1953. Unlike Martin Luther King and his famous I Have a Dream speech, I was not asked to speak, but I was recognized during a tribute.]]> 2022-05-26 19:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201289063 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201762873 I have received over 5 awards during these past years. The awards I've received were  The Golden Plate Award, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Congressional Gold Medal, Springarn Metal, Presidential Metal and freedom]]> 2022-05-27 04:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201762873 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201773374 My childhood was rough, but I mange to always move on I was moved to versus schools and I had to live through segregation and a pretty difficult time i had to moved with my grandparents because of reasons ]]> 2022-05-27 04:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201773374 4184671 https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201778704 On October 24, 2005, I passed away and my loved ones surrounded me, I hope I made an excellent impact in the world and I would want everyone to be treated the exact same.]]> 2022-05-27 04:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/4184671/22d84oqnr8lt7f70/wish/2201778704