https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky Made with wonder en-us 2018-10-08 16:25:25 UTC 2025-03-07 21:29:28 UTC hello@padlet.com s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291344111 is a lady refused to give up her seat to a white man.]]> 2018-10-10 16:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291344111 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291345042 Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. ]]> 2018-10-10 16:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291345042 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291350540 The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". ]]> 2018-10-10 16:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291350540 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291351650 Parks was a seamstress by trade, but was deeply active in the NAACP and Montgomery Improvement Association, working to improve civil rights in her community. ]]> 2018-10-10 16:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291351650 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291354335 Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James Blake, who had a reputation for treating black passengers without dignity. ]]> 2018-10-10 16:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291354335 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291355247 Rosa parks is famous for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to make room for white passengers when the bus driver ordered her to]]> 2018-10-10 16:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291355247 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291356594  Parks died of natural causes on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, in her apartment on the east side of Detroit. She and her husband never had children and she outlived her only sibling.]]> 2018-10-10 16:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/291356594 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/292249528 Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James Blake, who had a reputation for treating black passengers without dignity. More than a decade earlier, Blake stopped Parks from entering the front of the bus, telling her to use the back entrance, then sped away before she got on.]]> 2018-10-12 16:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/292249528 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/292250085 Parks' arrest was supposed to spark a one-day boycott. Activist E.D. Nixon, who was president of Montgomery's NAACP chapter, led the effort to turn Parks' arrest into a one-day boycott. It was such a success that it transformed into a broader boycott until buses were desegregated, or black people were treated better.]]> 2018-10-12 16:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/292250085 s9076224 https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/292250438  It lasted more than a year -- and helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement]]> 2018-10-12 16:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s9076224/fhtqyx9umsky/wish/292250438